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• n  (law) the intentional destruction of a document or an alteration of it that destroys its value as evidence
• n  the act of stripping and taking by force

• There are other cases of massive spoliation.
• Senator Bruce was trying to force action on his favorite bill to settle the more-than-a-century-old French spoliation claims.
• It begins with the land in its original wildness and its taming and spoliation by the first settlers and their slaves.

• spoil
• spoilation
• despoilation
• despoilment
• despoliation

News & Articles

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• Another judge has “serious question” about Prenda porn trolls
  Talking signatures, spoliation—and possibly sanctions—in an SF Prenda case.        
  July 19, 2013 - Ars Technica

Quotes

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• David Lammy in Reuters.uk
  The government has accepted the recommendation of the......Spoliation Advisory Panel to return to the heirs of Arthur Feldmann three drawings which were seized by the Gestapo in Czechoslovakia in 1939,Culture Minister David Lammy said in a...