spoliation
IPA: spoʊɫiˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- (archaic) The act of plundering or spoiling; robbery
- Robbery or plunder in times of war; especially, the authorized act or practice of plundering neutrals at sea.
- (law) The intentional destruction of or tampering with (a document) in such way as to impair evidentiary effect.
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Examples of "spoliation" in Sentences
- He was asked to bring spoliation.
- Spoliation is common among pirates.
- Its subject is French spoliation claims.
- Why should spoliation sanctions be imposed
- The man admitted that he has commited spoliation.
- This kind of spoliation is called privilege or monopoly.
- Plaintiffs sought an adverse inference instruction for the spoliation.
- The spoliation of client files continued over Manji's objections to the contrary.
- They want to avoid the publicity and other negative aspects of spoliation sanctions.
- It is their duty to preserve and prevent the spoliation of evidence and intentional spoliation of evidence.
- About spoliation, Kabwe insists that natural resources tend to be disconnected from the rest of the economy.
- This kind of spoliation, and popular enlightenment, are always in an inverse ratio to one another, for it is in the nature of abuses to go as far as possible.
- Striking a pleading for negligent spoliation is a drastic sanction that is appropriate only where the missing evidence deprive [s] the moving party of the ability to establish his or her defense or case.
- Poor Don Juan found himself thus unexpectedly between two horns of a dilemma, the result in either case being the same -- that is, the spoliation of the little _pecadillo_ he had put away against old age.
- This kind of spoliation, thus reduced to a system, becomes then the most ridiculous of mystifications for every one, and the definite result is that each one believes that he gains more from a general market impoverished by all.
- Let us, then, endeavor to indicate that beneficent force which tends progressively to overcome the maleficent force to which we have given the name spoliation, and the existence of which is only too well explained by reason and proved by experience.
- The manner in which this kind of spoliation is sometimes effected may be gathered from a narrative which we received from the lips of one of the few learned and estimable men whom the system of electing judges by the people has left upon the bench in the City of New York.
- People who fear lawsuits or have something to hide tamper with evidence [Fitzgerald calls it "spoliation"] in ways that may seem clever -- overwriting files, reinstalling the operating system, loading a bunch of other data on discs and drives and them deleting them -- but are easily uncovered during an investigation.
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