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flagrante delicto

[fluh-gran-tee di-lik-toh]

fla·gran·te de·lic·to

[fluh-gran-tee di-lik-toh]
noun Law.
in the very act of committing the offense.

Origin:
< Latin
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Flagrante delicto is always a great word to know.
So is slander. Does it mean:
a legal notice to a court or public officer to suspend a certain proceeding until the notifier is given a hearing
defamation by oral utterance rather than by writing
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