Definition of Spoliator

1. n. One who spoliates; a spoiler.

Definition of Spoliator

1. Noun. (obsolete) One who spoliates. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Spoliator

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spoliator

spokespeople
spokesperson
spokespersons
spokest
spokeswoman
spokeswomen
spokewise
spoking
spoliate
spoliated
spoliates
spoliating
spoliation
spoliations
spoliative
spoliator (current term)
spoliators
spoliatory
spoligotype
spoligotypes
spoligotyping
spondaic
spondaics
spondaise
spondaize
spondee
spondees
spondulic
spondulick
spondulicks

Literary usage of Spoliator

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Principles of the Law of Evidence: With Elemenatry Rules for Conducting by William Mawdesley Best, Charles Frederic Chamberlayne (1883)
"Extent of the presumption against the spoliator of documents . . 413 Occasionally carried too far . . . 414 Especially in criminal cases . . 415 § 411. ..."

2. The Law of Presumptive Evidence: (including Presumptions Both of Law and of by John Davison Lawson (1899)
"The voluntary destruction of a document raises a presumption of fraud, and precludes the spoliator from giving secondary evidence of its contents, ..."

3. The Principles of the Law of Evidence: With Elementary Rules for Conducting by William Mawdesley Best, John Archibald Russell, Appleton Morgan (1882)
"Presumptions in disfavor of a spoliator 9. Presumptions in international law. 10. Presumptions in maritime law. 11. Miscellaneous presumptions. ..."

4. The Law of Presumptive Evidence: Including Presumptions Both of Law and of by John Davison Lawson (1886)
"... presumption of fraud, and precludes the spoliator from giving secondary evidence of its contents, in the absence of a legal excuse for its destruction. ..."

5. Rules of Evidence as Prescribed by the Common Law: For the Trial of Actions by George William Bradner (1895)
"Presumptions against a spoliator.—The omission of a party to an action to testify to facts or to produce evidence in explanation of or to contradict adverse ..."

6. "Cape Times" Law Reports: A Record of Every Matter Disposed of in the by South Africa Supreme Court (1907)
"... and he was in no sense a spoliator. He contended that there wae no evidence that the proper steps were taken to confiscate this horse by the military. ..."

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