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Spoliation
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What's The Definition Of Spoliation?
[n] the act of stripping and taking by force
[n] (law) the intentional destruction of a document or an alteration of it that destroys its value as evidence Synonyms | Synonyms for Spoliation: despoilation | despoilment | despoliation | spoil | spoilation Related Terms | Find terms related to Spoliation: See Also | destruction | devastation | pillage | pillaging | plundering Spoliation In Webster's Dictionary \Spo`li*a"tion\, n. [L. spoliatio; cf. F. spoliation.
See {Spoil}, v. t.]
1. The act of plundering; robbery; deprivation; despoliation.
Legal spoliation, which will impoverish one part of
the community in order to corrupt the remainder.
--Sir G. C.
Lewis.
2. Robbery or plunder in war; especially, the authorized act
or practice of plundering neutrals at sea.
3. (Eccl. Law)
(a) The act of an incumbent in taking the fruits of his
benefice without right, but under a pretended title.
--Blackstone.
(b) A process for possession of a church in a spiritual
court.
4. (Law) Injury done to a document.
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