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Spoliator

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

Black's Law Dictionary

Lat. A spoiler or destroyer. It is a maxim of law, bearing chiefly on evidence, but also upon the value generally of the thing destroyed, that everything most to his disadvantage is to be presumed against the destroyer, (spoliator,) contra spoliatorem omnia prœsumuntur.

1 Smith, Lead. Cas. 315.