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Despoil

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

This word involves, in its signification, violence or clandestine means by which one is deprived of that which he possesses. Its Spanish equivalent, despojar, is a term used in Mexican law.

Sunol v. Hepburn, 1 Cal. 268.