barrator

Being a common barrator was an offence under the common law of England.

Money he took, and let them smoothly off, so he says; and in other offices besides he was no little barrator, but sovereign.

And when the barrator had disappeared, He turned his talons upon his companion, And grappled with him right above the moat.

Canto XXII: A Barrator tricks a demon-guard and causes confusion.

In England and Wales the common law offence of being a common barrator was abolished by section 13(1)(a) of the Criminal Law Act 1967.

Calcabrina, enraged at the flout, kept flying behind him, desirous that the sinner should escape, that he might have a scuffle; and when the barrator had disappeared he turned his talons upon his companion, and grappled with him above the ditch.