Definition of "spoliation"

spoliation

/ˌspəʊliˈeɪʃən/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural spoliations
1. (archaic) The act of plundering or spoiling; robbery
  Quotations
  The shop bore even more evident signs of spoliation—that reckless wastefulness which seems the constant companion of cruelty; but little of the grocery appeared to have been touched, excepting the sweet things.
  1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Knife, page 121
  In trickery, evasion, procrastination, spoliation, botheration, under false pretences of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good.
  1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853
2. Robbery or plunder in times of war; especially, the authorized act or practice of plundering neutrals at sea.
3. (law) The intentional destruction of or tampering with (a document) in such way as to impair evidentiary effect.