Spoliation
[,spəʊlɪ'eɪʃ(ə)n] or [,spolɪ'eʃən]
Definition
(noun.) (law) the intentional destruction of a document or an alteration of it that destroys its value as evidence.
Inputed by Angie--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) The act of plundering; robbery; deprivation; despoliation.
(v. t.) Robbery or plunder in war; especially, the authorized act or practice of plundering neutrals at sea.
(v. t.) The act of an incumbent in taking the fruits of his benefice without right, but under a pretended title.
(v. t.) A process for possession of a church in a spiritual court.
(v. t.) Injury done to a document.
Typist: Mason
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Robbery, pillage, plundering, rapine, devastation, destruction.
Checker: Rowena
Examples
- In trickery, evasion, procrastination, spoliation, botheration, under false pretences of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- A third and fourth friend in the vicinity was appealed to with the same disheartening reply of a story of wholesale spoliation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Such was the greed of the fellow, that his mind had shot beyond halves, two-thirds, three-fourths, and gone straight to spoliation of the whole. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
Editor: Lou