Of all the reminders that she had ever received that her people were socially extinct there was none so forcible as this spoliation .

In trickery, evasion, procrastination, spoliation , botheration, under false pretences of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good.

He believed almost with devoutness in the plot which he had detected for the spoliation of Lord Wetherby's summer-house, that plot of which he held Lord Dawlish to be the mainspring.

The whole business of the human race, between London and Dover, being spoliation , Mr Dorrit was waylaid at Dartford, pillaged at Gravesend, rifled at Rochester, fleeced at Sittingbourne, and sacked at Canterbury.

The theory of Free Trade is only applicable to systems of exchange, not to systems of spoliation . Our system is one of spoliation , and if we don't abandon it, we must either return to Protection or go to smash by the road I have just mapped.

Such was the greed of the fellow, that his mind had shot beyond halves, two-thirds, three-fourths, and gone straight to spoliation of the whole.

Yet the spoliation on the spot was emphasized and even put first in the demand.

He was like a man counting the cost of an unlucky speculation--irritated, depressed--exasperated with himself and with others, with the fortunate, with the indifferent, with the callous; yet the wrong done him appeared so cruel that he would perhaps have dropped a tear over that spoliation if it had not been for his conviction that men do not weep.

He stood responsible for all the spoliations of the camp, the precious goblet among the number, and Mr.

at 1064-65 (noting a few jurisdictions recognizing a separate cause of action for spoliation ).

Spoliation is "the destruction or significant alteration of evidence, or the failure to preserve property for another's use as evidence in pending or reasonably foreseeable litigation." The courts have authority and discretion to impose a range of sanctions for spoliation of evidence.