Sacquier

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.

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 the merchant by false tale, or cheating him of his merchandise otherwise. Laws of Oleron, art 11, published in an English translation in 1 Pet. Adm. xxv. See Abrameub; Stevedore. SACRAMENTAL ES (L. Lat. sacramentum, oath). Compur gator es, which see. Jurors. Law Fr. & Lat Diet. SACRAMENTUM (Lat). In Civil Law. A gage in money laid down in court by both parties that went to law, returned to him who had the verdict on his side, but forfeited by the party who was cast, to the exchequer, to be laid out in sacris rebus, and therefore so called. Varro, lib. 4. de Ling. Lat. c. 36. An oath, as a very sacred thing. Ainsworth, Diet; Vicat, Voc. Jur. Sacramentum Fidclitati8. The oath of fealty. See Fealty. The oath taken by soldiers to be true to their general and country. Id. SACRAMENTUM DECISIONIS (Lat.). The voluntary or decisive oath of the civil law, where one of the parties to a suit, not being able to prove his case, offers to refer the decision of the cause to the oath of his adversary, who is bound to accept or make the same offer on his part, or the whole is considered as confessed by him. 3 Bla. Com. 342.