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corpora delicti

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cor⋅pus de⋅lic⋅ti

  [kawr-puhs di-lik-tahy]
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–noun, plural cor⋅po⋅ra de⋅lic⋅ti  [kawr-per-uh di-lik-tahy] . Law.
1. the basic element or fact of a crime, as, in murder, the death of the murdered person.
2. the object, as the body of a murdered person, upon which a crime has been committed and that serves as evidence proving that the crime was committed.
Origin:
1825–35; < NL: lit., body of the offense
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Main Entry: corpus de·lic·ti
Pronunciation: -di-'lik-"tI, -dA-, -tE
Function: noun
Etymology: New Latin, literally, the body of the offense
: the substance of a crime that the prosecutor must prove and that consists of an injury or loss (as death of a victim or disappearance of property) and the criminal act that resulted in it
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: corpus de·lic·ti
Pronunciation: -di-'lik-"tI, -(")tE
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural corpora delicti
1 : the substantial and fundamental fact (as, in murder, actual death and its occurrence as a result of criminal agency) necessary to prove the commission of a crime
2 : thematerial substance (as the body of the victim of a murder) upon which a crime has been committed
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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