spoilation

The intentional deletion or alteration of a document that is used for 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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(A Lockean spoilation proviso may be necessary, but self-interest alone

Locke, Hegel, and rights to property: examining the unstable ideological architecture of the Canadian law of aboriginal title

4 The Welsh property is the Italianate village of Portmeirion, Gwynedd, designed and built by the architect Clough Williams-Ellis in the 1920s as a physical protest against the ever-encroaching spoilation of the natural landscape.

QUIZOPEDIA; COFFEE BREAK EXTRA

The poem was printed in the Ham & High for July 26, 1879: A Lament for the Spoilation of Wildwood, North End There is no haunt on Hampstead-heath more rich in native charms Than Wildwood, where the chestnuts lift their gnarled and bony arms, And 'front the limes in serried lines, While, high in air above, The branches blend and shadows lend To bats and whispered love.

Fathering graces at Hampstead: Manley Hopkins' "The Old Trees" and Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Binsey Poplars"

Plaintiff alleges negligence; intentional interference with prospective civil action by spoilation of evidence; negligent spoilation of evidence; and waste.

FOR THE RECORD

Absent bad-faith conduct, the court stated, "applying a rule of law that results in dismissal on the grounds of spoilation [sic] of evidence is not authorized."

Conning the IADC newsletters. (Conning)

Editorial includes: ways to minimize potential liability for spoilation; benefits of retaining information; sample record retention policies and guides; consequences of destroying documents; e-mail policies; written policies; using application software functions to manage data; protecting sensitive business information; and, general guidelines for going paper-less.

Pike & Fischer. (Books and References: Document Retention)

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 pride of Melbourne': impressions of the library in words and pictures