Barrator

noun

1. One who engages in barratry.
2. In old law, one who buys or sells ecclesiastical preferment; a simonist.
3. In Scots law, a judge who takes a bribe.
4. One who buys or sells offices of state.
5. One who commits barratry; one who, being the master of a ship or one of its officers or seamen, commits any fraud or fraudulent act in the management of the ship or cargo, by which the owner, freighters, or insurers are injured, as by running away with the ship, sinking or deserting her, wilful deviation from the fixed course, or embezzlement of the cargo.