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noun

Spoliation n.

The act of plundering; robbery; deprivation; despoliation. "Legal spoliation, which will impoverish one part of the community in order to corrupt the remainder."

Robbery or plunder in war; especially, the authorized act or practice of plundering neutrals at sea.

(Eccl. Law)

(a)

The act of an incumbent in taking the fruits of his benefice without right, but under a pretended title.

(b)

A process for possession of a church in a spiritual court.

(Law) Injury done to a document.

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"Spoliation" Quotes from Famous Books

... you little dream the ecstatic delight that exists in Waste, for the vulgarity of a mind that has never enjoyed Possession, till it comes to riot at one blow in Spoliation!" ...

— Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida - Selected from the Works of Ouida • Ouida

... falsification is beyond the reach of the law, it is not beyond the reach of the conscience. A robbery is none the less a robbery because it is beyond the range of vision or the arm of justice. If the possessor of an estate has entered through the forgery of a record or the spoliation of a will, which although believed by every neighbor is beyond judicial proof, all the world pronounces his possession fraudulent, even though he scatters his wealth in charities and gathers many companions around his luxurious table. ...

— The Vote That Made the President • David Dudley Field

... readily be understood that if the conspirators were these men,—upon whose grace the Pilgrims must depend for permission to remain upon the territory to which they had been inveigled, or even for permission to depart from it, without spoliation, —men whose influence with the King (no friend to the Pilgrims) was sufficient to make both of them, in the very month of the Pilgrims' landing, "governors" of "The Council for New England," under whose authority the Planters must remain,—the latter were ...

— The Mayflower and Her Log, Complete • Azel Ames

... attended to even the pettiest details of his varied business. Moreover, the liquor was despatched by his orders direct by ship to New Orleans and from thence up the Mississippi to St. Louis and to other frontier points. The horrible effects of this traffic and the consequent spoliation were set forth by a number of ...

— History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I - Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times • Myers Gustavus

... was still dark, and his eye still stern; for his policy confirmed his passions; and it was only by stigmatising, as dishonoured and accursed, the memory and cause of the dead King, that he could justify the sweeping spoliation of those who had fought against himself, and confiscate the lands to which his own Quens and ...

— Harold, Complete - The Last Of The Saxon Kings • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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