A fraudulent, false, or collusive manner of pleading to the deception of a third person. FAIR, n. In English law. A greater species of market; a privileged market. It is an incorporeal hereditament, granted by royal patent, or established by prescription presupposing a grant from the crown. In the earlier English law, the franchise to hold a fair conferred certain important privileges; and fairs, as legally recognized institutions, possessed distinctive legal characteristics. Most of these privileges and characteristics, however, are now obsolete. In America, fairs, in the ancient tech- nical sense, are unknown, and, in the modern and popular sense, they are entirely voluntary and non-legal, and transactions arising in or in con- nection with them are subject to the ordinary rules governing sales, etc. FAIR, adj. Just; equitable; even-handed; equal, as between conflicting interests.