Publican
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In civil law
A farmer of the public revenue; one who held a lease of some property from the public treasury.
Dig. 39. 4. 1. 1; Id. 39. 4. 12. 3; Id. 39. 4. 13.
PUBLICANUS (Lat.) In the Roman law. A farmer of the customs; a publican (qui publico fructur).
Dig. 39. 4. 1; Id. 50. 16. 16; Calv. Lex.