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CORPUS DELICTI
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The body of evidence that constitute the offence; the objective proof that a crime has been committed (sometimes mistakenly thought to refer to the body of a homicide victim)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("corpus delicti" is a kind of...):
evidence ((law) all the means by which any alleged matter of fact whose truth is investigated at judicial trial is established or disproved)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
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