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Spoliation
Spoliation meaning
The action of spoliating, or forcibly seizing property; pillage, plunder; also, the state of having property forcibly seized; (countable) an instance of this; a robbery, a seizure. | The action of destroying or ruining; destruction, ruin. | The action of an incumbent (“holder of an ecclesiastical benefice”) wrongfully depriving another of the emoluments of a benefice.
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Example sentences (5)
The law provides that the actio spolii must be instituted within two months from the date of spoliation or detention of the item in question.
Yesterday three day spas were shut down and 165 men were arrested on spoliation charges.
The spoliation of the soil continues today, despite the development and application of synthetic fertilizers, given that the inner dynamic of the capital system continues to rob the earth itself of its conditions of reproduction.
This recorded admission from the defendant creates an undeniable statutory expectation NOT to engage in spoliation of evidence.
Chandler: Marlborough as Military Commander, p. 139 But this reticence to fight induced Marlborough to undertake a controversial policy of spoliation in Bavaria, burning buildings and crops throughout the rich lands south of the Danube.