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Sacquier

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In maritime law

The name of an ancient officer, whose business was to load and unload vessels laden with salt, corn, or fish, to prevent the ship's crew defrauding tfte merchant by false tale, or cheating him of his merchandise otherwise. Laws of Oleron, art.

11, published in an English translation in an appendix to 1 Pet. Adm. XXV, See "Arrameur;" "Stevedore."

SACRA (Lat.) In the Roman law. The SACRAMENTALES (Law Lat. sacramentwm, oath). Compurgatores (q. v.); jurors. Law Fr. & Lat. Diet.