Fair

A public mart or place of buying or selling.

1 Bla. Com. 274.

A greater species of market, recurring at more distant intervals. Though etymologically signifying a marof agricultural and mechanical products. State V. Long, 48 Ohio St 509, 28 N. E. 103& Where a fair association maintains on its grounds a track for horse racing, it must use reasonable care to keep such track free from danger to patrons when they are invited or permitted to cross and while they are thus crossing; Higgins v. Agricultural Society, 100 Me. 665, 62 Atl. 708, 3 L. B. A. (N. S.) 1132. Where a city authorized the use of a street for a carnival or street fair, it was held liable for injurious consequences to one injured by a defective structure therein; Van Cleef V. aty of Chicago, 240 111.

318, 88 N. E. 815, 23 L. R. A. (N. S.) 636, 130 Am. St. Rep. 276.

A fair Is usually attended by A greater concourse of people than a market, for the amusement of whom various exhibitions are gotten up. Mc Culloch, Comm. Diet.; Wharton, Diet. A solemn or greater sort of market, granted to any town by privilege, for the. more speedy and commodious provision of such things as the subject needeth, or the utterance of such things as we abound in above our own uses and occasions. Cowell; Cunningham, Law Diet.

A privileged market

A fair is a franchise which is obtained by a grant from the crown. 2d Inst. 220; 3 Mod. 123; 1 Ld. Raym. 341; 2 Saund. 172; 1 Rolle, Abr. 106; Tomlin; Cunningham, Law Diet. In the Middle Ages, the right to hold a fair meant the right to hold a court of pie-powder for the fair. Sometimes these courts were held by the mayor of a corporate town; sometimes they belonged to a lord. The law merchant was administered in addition to many other kinds of Jurisdiction, civil and criminal. Of these, the Lord Mayor’s Court in London,, the To Uey Court, and a branch of it sitting in fair time as a pie-powder court, at Bristol, are examples of survivals. There are many others: Derby, Exeter, Newark, Norwich, etc.; 1 Holdsw.

Hist. B, L. 808.

Fairs are usually recognized and regulated by statute. See Agbicultubal Society; FsANCHisk