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Corpus delicti

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The evidence that a crime has occurred.
  2. 2
    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) wordnet

Etymology

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

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