FAIR

fair,adj.1. Impartial; just; equitable; disinterested <everyone thought that Judge Jones was

fair>.2. Free of bias or prejudice <in jury selection, the lawyers tried to select a fair and impartial

jury>.

fair,n. Hist. A privileged market for the buying and selling of goods. • A fair was an

incorporeal hereditament granted to a town by royal patent or franchise or established by

prescription. The franchise to hold a fair conferred important privileges, and a fair, as a legally

recognized institution, possessed distinctive legal characteristics, most of which are now obsolete.

Cf. market overt under MARKET.[Blacks Law 8th]