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ˈfierding pseudo-arch.
[a. Sw. fjerding:—ON. fjórðungr: see farthing.
Introduced from a Swedish writer by Blackstone in his disquisitions on Teutonic legal antiquities, and by some later writers mistaken for a term of early Eng. law.]
An alleged name for a quarter of a hundred or of a shire. Also attrib. in fierding-court.
1768Blackstone Comm. III. 34 The antient Gothic courts in their lowest instance, or fierding-courts. 1872E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 120 note, The district between the Hundred and the greater Shire—the Fierding or Quarter. 1889Century Dict., Fierding-court, one of an early class of English courts, so called because [etc.]. |