Etymology

corpus delicti

Today it means: The evidence that a crime has occurred. Full definition →

New Latin corpus dēlictī
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  1. New Latin · borrowed fromcorpus dēlictī
  2. English todaycorpus delicti

From New Latin corpus dēlictī (literally “body of the crime”).

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