The spoliator then bears the burden of proof to show otherwise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

The spoliator of the Roman theatre was his ancestor, the tyrannical and justly-hated Maurice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Roof of France] Reference

… The deliberate destruction of evidence gives rise to the presumption that the matter destroyed is not favorable to the spoliator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

Both judges left it to the jury to determine whether to consider lost/destroyed evidence as being detrimental to the alleged spoliator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Discovery Resources] Reference

And now, too, had he an equal interest in the removal of his double rival, whom, besides, he considered the spoliator of his hoarded property.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dead Boxer The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two] Reference

In other words, if someone hides evidence in this way, the law presumes that the hidden evidence was damaging to the argument of the spoliator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

A kindred rule to the foregoing … is that the intentional spoliation or destruction of evidence relevant to a case raises a presumption that the evidence would have been unfavorable to the cause of the spoliator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

But lesser sanctions such as adverse inferences are ill-suited to a case like this, where the spoliator has, in bad faith, irretrievably deleted computer files that likely contained important discovery information.    From Wordnik.com.  [Groklaw] Reference

I might be hesitant to apply this logic to the world of scientific inquiry were it not for the fact that the CRU scientists have demonstrated as little regard for honest adjudication of their position as your run-of-the-mill spoliator of evidence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Power Line] Reference

Too aristocratic to be envious, too rich to be a spoliator, too frivolous to be a fanatic by principle, the Revolution turned his brain in the same manner as a rapidly flowing river carries with it the eye that in vain strives to gaze fixedly on it.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution] Reference

Now he had the deadly chagrin and bitter disappointment of seeing the money which he had wrested from Clyffurde last night at the price of so much humiliation, transferred to the pockets of a real thief and spoliator who would either keep it for himself or -- what in the enthusiastic royalist's eyes would be even worse -- place it at the service of the Corsican usurper.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days] Reference

When Pius VII. protested against the seizure of his States, and hurled a bull of excommunication at the spoliator, Napoleon issued orders which led to his arrest; and shortly after midsummer the unfortunate pontiff was hurried away from Rome to Florence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2)] Reference

But war will disunite the German people. Bavaria will surely assist us—Hanover will rise against the spoliator—Austria at our first successes must shake off her present enforced neutrality?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Parisians — Complete] Reference

Death is a remorseless spoliator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under Western Eyes] Reference

Sir Robert, spoliator of Clerks 'Company, 108.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Parish Clerk] Reference

The arch-spoliator was.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanishing England] Reference

Jessop, spoliator, 150.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanishing England] Reference

"Barefaced spoliator!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, March 25, 1893] Reference

Dowsing, W., spoliator, 148.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanishing England] Reference

Somerset, Duke of, spoliator, 146.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanishing England] Reference

Sussex, Robert, Earl of, spoliator, 147.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanishing England] Reference

Cf. Zubulake v. UBS Warburg LLC, 220 F.R.D. 212, 219 (S.D.N.Y. 2003) ( "In practice, an adverse inference instruction often ends litigation -- it is too difficult a hurdle for the spoliator to overcome.").    From Wordnik.com.  [Groklaw] Reference