Spoliation
Origin
From Latin spoliatio
Full definition of spoliation
Noun
spoliation
(plural spoliations)- The act of plundering or spoiling; robbery; deprivation; despoliation.
- 1852, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch. 1:In trickery, evasion, procrastination, spoliation, botheration, under false pretences of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good.
- Robbery or plunder in times of war; especially, the authorized act or practice of plundering neutrals at sea.
- (legal) The intentional destruction of or tampering with (a document) in such way as to impair evidentiary effect.