Legal Definition and Related Resources of Despoil
Meaning of Despoil
Synonyms of Despoil
verb
- assail
- attack
- bereave
- consume
- denude
- deplume
- depredate
- deprive
- desolate
- devastate
- devour
- dispossess
- divest
- forage
- foray
- impoverish
- invade
- lay waste
- leave destitute
- loot
- make off with
- maraud
- overrun
- pilfer
- pillage
- plunder
- purloin
- raid
- ransack
- ravage
- raven
- rifle
- rob
- ruin
- ruinate
- sack
- seize
- spoliate
- steal
- strip
- take
- take by force
- thieve
- wreck
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Despoil in the Dictionary of Law consisting of Judicial Definitions and Explanations of Words, Phrases and Maxims
Imports the use of violence or of clandestine means to deprive a person of something he possesses. Sunol v. Hepburn, 1 Cal. 268 (1850).
Note: This legal definition of Despoil in the Dictionary of Law (English and American Jurisprudence) is from 1893.
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