Sc. Law. Obs. Also 7 fairand-man. [f. farand, obs. pr. pple. of FARE to travel + MAN.] A stranger, a traveller.
The Law of Farandman provided that a pedlar, not residing within the shrievalty, should have the right of bringing to trial, ‘within the third flowing and ebbing of the sea,’ any person who had committed theft or felony against him.
[c. 1205. Lay., 4262. Alken farinde mon ȝef slaht oþer hæfde þeofðe idon.]
14[?]. Fragmenta, in Sc. Stat., I. App. v. 726. Partis striffande be þe law of farandman or pipuderous.
1597. Skene, De Verb. Sign., Farandman … ane stranger or Pilgrimer. Ibid. (1609), Reg. Mag., Burrow Lawes, clx. The law of Fairandman, or Dustifut.
