spoliation
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spoliation englanniksi
The action of spoliating, or forcibly seizing property; pillage, plunder; also, the state of having property forcibly seized; an instance of this; a robbery, a seizure.
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(RQ:Kingsley Hypatia) an unequalled genius for organization, and an uniform system of external law and order. This was generally a real boon to conquered nations, because it substituted a fixed and regular spoliation for the fortuitous and arbitrary miseries of savage warfare: (..)
(RQ:Dickens Bleak House) In trickery, evasion, procrastination, spoliation, botheration, under false pretences of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good.
(quote-journal), Associate Justice, (w) (delivering the court’s opinion)|mainauthor=Davis|John Chandler Bancroft Davis, reporter|title=Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad Company ''v.'' Chicago|journal=States Reports|United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at October Term, 1896(nb...)|location=New York&59; Albany, N.Y.|publisher=Banks & Brothers|volume=166|page=235|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/sim_united-states-supreme-court-cases-adjudged_1896_166_table-of-contents/page/235/mode/1up|issn=0891-6845|oclc=859918189|passage=In Davidson v. City of New Orleans|''Davidson'' v. ''New Orleans'', above cited (quote-gloss), it was said that a statute declaring in terms, without more, that the full and exclusive title to a described piece of land belonging to one person should be and is hereby vested in another person, would, if effectual, deprive the former of his property without due process of law, within the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. (..) Such an enactment would not receive judicial sanction in any country having a written constitution distributing the powers of government among three coördinate departments, and committing to the judiciary, expressly or by implication, authority to enforce the provisions of such constitution. It would be treated not as an exertion of legislative power, but as a sentence—an act of spoliation.
(quote-journal) In some cases, absconding officials have left the economies of their countries ransacked and destroyed.
The action of destroying or ruining; destruction, ruin.
(RQ:Landon Beauty)
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The action of an (l) wrongfully depriving another of the emoluments of a benefice.
(RQ:Ayliffe Juris Canonici)
(RQ:Blackstone Commentaries) A patron firſt preſents A to a benefice, vvho is inſtituted and inducted thereto; and then, upon pretence of a vacancy, ''the ſame'' patron preſents B to the ſame living, and he alſo obtains inſtitution and induction. Novv if A diſputes the fact of the vacancy, then that clerk vvho is kept out of the profits of the living, vvhichever it may be, may ſue the other in the ſpiritual court for ſpoliation, or taking the profits of ''his'' benefice.
A lawsuit brought or writ issued by an incumbent against another, claiming that the latter has wrongfully taken the emoluments of a benefice.
(quote-book)|edition=new|location=London|publisher=(...) (w), James Flesher, and Henry Twyford, assigns of Richard Atkyns and Atkyns (politician)|Edward Atkyns Esquires|page=566|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_les-termes-de-la-ley-or_rastell-john_1667/page/566/mode/1up|column=2|oclc=320326210|passage=Where one ſaith to the Patron, that his Clerk is dead, whereupon he preſents another: there the firſt Incumbent, who was ſuppoſed to be dead, may have a ''Spoliation'' againſt the other.
The intentional destruction of, or tampering with, a document so as to impair its evidentiary value.
(quote-web) Kennard, Associate Justice, (w)|title=Cedars-Sinai Medical Center v. Superior Court (Bowyer)|series=18 Cal. 4th 1, 74 Cal. Rptr. 2d 248, 954 P. 2d 511|work=Supreme Court of California Resources, Robert Crown Law Library, (w)|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20250523212529/https://scocal.stanford.edu/opinion/cedars-sinai-medical-center-v-superior-court-bowyer-31780|passage=Plaintiff, a child injured during birth, alleges that defendant hospital intentionally destroyed evidence relevant to his malpractice action against the hospital. He seeks to bring a separate tort cause of action against defendant hospital for its alleged intentional spoliation—that is, intentional destruction or suppression—of evidence. (..) We conclude that when the alleged intentional spoliation is committed by a party to the underlying cause of action to which the evidence is relevant and when the spoliation is or reasonably should have been discovered before the conclusion of the underlying litigation, it is preferable to reply on existing nontort remedies rather than creating a tort remedy.
(senseid) The systematic forcible seizure of property during a crisis or state of unrest such as that caused by war, now regarded as a crime; looting, pillage, plunder; an instance of this.
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(quote-book) By spoliation, we mean the plunder of public and private property and, in general, the exploitation of the people and the natural resources of occupied countries.
(quote-journal)|volume=23|issue=2|page=171|issn=1080-6687|oclc=843226040|passage=As culture continues to suffer spoliation at the hands of individuals who are not part of typical armed conflicts, and as minority and other groups continue to see the destruction of their culture, the international legal community may need to rethink their hesitancy to apply the tools of criminal law to cultural genocide.
The government-sanctioned action or practice of plundering neutral ships at sea; an instance of this.
(quote-hansard)|house=(w), 29th States Congress|Congress, 1st session|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=(nb...) Blair & Rives|issue=54 (New Series)|page=857|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/sim_united-states-congress-congressional-globe_december-2-1945-august-8-1846_15_appendix/page/S57/mode/1up|column=2|oclc=244827502|passage=Immediately after the rupture with Great Britain in February, 1793, France, by waging war with nearly all Europe, and while oppressed by famine and the starving policy of England, commenced her spoliations on our commerce. Our ships were plundered as well by the armed vessels of France as by innumerable privateers, equipped for the purpose of supplying France with provisions from the only resource left her, the commerce of neutral nations.