CORPUS DELICTI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does corpus delicti mean? 

• CORPUS DELICTI (noun)
  The noun CORPUS DELICTI has 1 sense:

1. 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)

  Familiarity information: CORPUS DELICTI used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORPUS DELICTI (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)