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spoilation

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spoilation
The intentional deletion or alteration of a document used as legal evidence. Since the advent of personal computers, it has become a snap to alter a document without revealing the alteration. If the document remains in the same computer where the alteration took place, or if that computer is available for analysis, an alteration may be uncovered with computer forensics. However, if the altered document is transferred to another machine by a savvy user, who knows how to delete all associated meta-data that might be under the covers, it is impossible to detect the document's previous history. See computer forensics.


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Plaintiff alleges negligence; intentional interference with prospective civil action by spoilation of evidence; negligent spoilation of evidence; and waste.
Those have also suffered by the predatory fingers of petty larcenists, who have torn out plates of famous race-horses; but, on the whole, as was remarked just now, these mischievous depredations have been few in number, and the great majority of those who habitually frequent the Melbourne Public Library feel that they possess a proprietary interest in the institution, and that they are under an obligation to protect the contents from spoilation or injury accordingly.
The court also found that summary judgment was precluded because of the spoilation of missing or tampered documents relating to the inmate's medical treatment, and whether a clinical social worker refused to act on a medical recommendation that the inmate required a psychiatric evaluation.
 
 
 
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