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    CORPUS DELICTI

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     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)play

    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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