sacquier

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sacquier - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  SACQUIER, maritime law. The same 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 an Appendix to 1 Pet. Adm. R. XXV. See Arrameur; Stevedore.