Obliteration
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
Erasure or biotting out of written words. Obliteration is not limited to effacing the letters of a will or seralching them out or blotting the:n so completely that they cannot be read. A line drawn through the writing is obliteration, though it may leave it as legible as it was before.
58 Pa, St. 244.