I commented that we could all vouch for the apparent huge acreage here within the Greater Birmingham conurbation, which bears repeating when considering the proposed
spoilation at Bromsgrove for instance, concerning which Julie Kirkbride MP has also commented at length in your columns recently.
Yellowstone was "dedicated and set apart as a park or pleasuring ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people", to be preserved "from injury or
spoilation of all timber, mineral deposits, natural curiosities, or wonders, within the park, and their retention in their natural condition".
582, 591-92 (1933) (holding that an equitable inquiry into the reasonableness of executive compensation may be justified in cases of possible "
spoilation or waste of corporate property").
Governments require fiscal revenue in order to provide public goods, but there are incentive effects due to this action, even if it is generously assumed that the leaders do not engage in
spoilation (Levi, 1988).
As to duration, Locke's
spoilation proviso provides one type of qualification: a property right endures until it becomes clear that the property is going to spoil.
No rage against the
spoilation of Mother Earth, her water, air and soil being rendered unfit for the living.
Of particular note, in the British context, was the ruling by Judge Anderson, in April 1948, that the charges against Krupp of abuse of slave labour and of
spoilation of industrial plants in the occupied countries should stand.
More serious is the fact that Bentley in an effort to preserve the 1619 date, is obliged to dismiss the host of 1613 allusions, unearthed by Bullen, as teeing `applicable to too many years'.(5) Among the references to 1613 in I.ii and II.iv identified by Bullen in his introduction and annotations passim, are patents for iron-milling with associated complaints concerning the
spoilation of forests, glass-making, debased coinage, and a petition on the exportation of undressed broadcloth.
And that, in the final analysis, is what he is after, consciousness of Creation and our
spoilation of it.
