fiarsn.
/ˈfiːəz/, U.S. /ˈfiərz/, Scottish English /ˈfiərz/ Scottish.
With plural agreement. The prices, annually fixed, of the different kinds of grain. Also more fully fiar(s prices, and sheriff-fiars. fiars-court, the court at which the prices are fixed.
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society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > [noun] > artificially arranged prices
staple ratea1628
sheriff fiars1689
fiars1723
pool price1872
parity1941
support price1943
shadow-price1965
trigger price1978
1723 Acts Sederunt Scotl. (1740) I. 253 Act declaring and appointing the Manner of striking the Sheriff-Fiars.
1723 Acts Sederunt Scotl. (1740) I. 253 That there is a general Complaint, That the said Fiars are struck..without due Care.
1723 Acts Sederunt Scotl. (1740) I. 254 Determining and fixing the Fiar-prices.
1835 Act 5 & 6 William IV c. 63 §16 The Fiar Prices of all Grain in every County shall be struck by the Imperial Quarter.
1861 G. Ross W. Bell's Dict. Law Scotl. (rev. ed.) (at cited word) The prices fixed by the opinion of the jury and sanctioned by the judge are termed the fiars of that year.
1887 Scotsman 8 Mar. At a Fiars Court for the county of Renfrew held..in Paisley, the prices of the season's crops were struck.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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