Definition of "spoilation" []

• The act of stripping and taking by force (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "The defendants had argued for the delay after Judge Sue L. Robinson, in the U.S. District Court in Delaware, ruled on January 9 that evidence "spoilation" occurred when Rambus allegedly destroyed important information related to the case that could be used against it."
• "It is not possible to identify either who should be liable to such spoilation nor to whom this wiergeld is to bepaid."
• "All of this ignore collateral attacks that are allowed, and other types of litigation spoilation of evidence, malicious prosecution, abuse of process, malicious defense in NH, good faith attacks in insurance litigation etc."