(A) Eng. eccl. law. The name of a suit sued out in the spiritual court to recover for the fruits of the church, or for the church itself. . 2. It is also a waste of church property by an ecclesiastical person. 3 Bl. Com. 90. (B) torts. Destruction of a thing by the act of a stranger; as, the erasure or alteration of a writing by the act of a stranger, is called spoliation. This … [Read more...] about SPOLIATION
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SPERATE
That of which there is hope. Thus a debt which one may hope to recover may be called "sperate," in opposition to "desperate." See 1 Chit. Pr. 520. … [Read more...] about SPERATE
SPOLIATOR
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 prcesumuntur. 1 Smith, Lead. Cas. 315. Spoliatns debet ante omnia restitni. A party despoiled [forcibly deprived of … [Read more...] about SPOLIATOR
SPES ACCRESCENDI
Lat. Hope of surviving. 3 Atk. 762 ; 2 Kent, Comm. 424. Spos est Tigilantis somninm. Hope is the dream of the vigilant 4 Inst. 203. Spes impnnitatis continnnm affectum tribuit delinquendi. The hope of impunity holds out a continual temptation to crime. 3 Inst 236. … [Read more...] about SPES ACCRESCENDI
SPOLIUM
Lat. In the civil and common law. A thing violently or unlawfully taken from another. … [Read more...] about SPOLIUM