Obs. Also 5 veyour, vayowr, 7 veiour (7–8 vejour), veighor. [a. OF. veiour (also veier, vaier, voier, etc.), f. veier (voier): see VEY v.] One appointed to view or inspect a thing.
1470. Little Red Bk. Bristol (1900), II. 132. Veyours sworne before John Shipward, Meire, to make vewe and put in sight of a grond and tenement. Ibid. (1493), 134. The vew of the partable wall,… the namysse of the sayd vayowres and ther verdyt.
1607. Cowell, Interpr., Veiours,… signifieth in our common lawe those, that are sent by the court to take view of any place in question, for the better descision of the right.
a. 1625. Sir H. Finch, Law (1636), 305. An action of deceit … must be brought during the life of the Sommoners, but not when all the Sommoners and veighors be dead. Ibid., 344. To take the land into the Kings hands by the view of lawfull men, called thereupon Veyors.
