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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Spoliation" Quotes from Famous Books

... 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

... over-civilized, learned, false, profligate Roman was the very counterpart of the modern Brahmin. But there was to be equal justice between man and man. If the Goths were the masters of much of the Roman soil, still spoliation and oppression were forbidden; and the remarkable edict or code of Theodoric, shews how deeply into his great mind had sunk the idea of the divineness of Law. It is short, and of Draconic severity, especially against ...

— The Roman and the Teuton - A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge • Charles Kingsley

... of reputation, within the limits of the city barrier, not unfrequently plucked the sweetest rose that ever adorned the virgin bosom of innocence, and triumphed, without censure, in the unhallowed spoliation. ...

— Charlemont • W. Gilmore Simms

... Europe; and what had become of it; and then by one of those illogical jumps—often indulged in by well-informed men discussing any subject that absorbs them—brought up at Voltaire and Taine and the earlier days of the Revolution in which one of the little tailor's ancestors had suffered spoliation ...

— Peter - A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero • F. Hopkinson Smith

... fully compensated, partly compensated, or not compensated at all? Do the Socialists aim at purchase or at confiscation of existing private property. Will they respect existing rights, or are they bent upon open or more or less disguised spoliation? ...

— British Socialism - An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals • J. Ellis Barker

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