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One who plunders, robs, or ruins.

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  • The spoliator then bears the burden of proof to show otherwise.
  • The spoliator of the Roman theatre was his ancestor, the tyrannical and justly-hated Maurice.
  • … The deliberate destruction of evidence gives rise to the presumption that the matter destroyed is not favorable to the spoliator.
  • Both judges left it to the jury to determine whether to consider lost/destroyed evidence as being detrimental to the alleged spoliator.
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