OPPRESSO

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  OPPRESSOR. One who having public authority uses it unlawfully to tyrannize 
  over another; as, if he keep him in prison until he shall do something which 
  he is not lawfully bound to do. 
       2. To charge a magistrate with being an oppressor, is therefore 
  actionable. Stark. Sland. 185.