1) Latin legal terminology 2) Sayers or Gardner figure
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Corpus delicti (Latin: `body of crime`; plural: corpora delicti) is a term from Western jurisprudence referring to the principle that a crime must have been proven to have occurred before a person can be convicted of committing that crime. For example, a person cannot be tried for larceny unless it can be proven that property has been stolen. Li.....
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Body of the crime. The objective proof that a crime has been committed. It sometimes refers to the body of the victim of a homicide or to the charred shell of a burned house, but the term has a broader meaning. For the state to introduce a confession or to convict the accused, it must prove a corpus delicti, that is, the occurrence of a specific in...
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The Latin term 'Corpus delicti' means, in a UK legal context: 'the body of the offence'.
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It is a latin term meaning 'body of the crime'.It means the evidences and facts required to prove the a crime has been commited.It can be the object with which the crime was commited or even a dead body in case of murder.
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Body of the crime. The objective proof that a crime has been committed. It sometimes refers to the body of the victim of a homicide or to the charred shell of a burned house, but the term has a broader meaning. For the state to introduce a confession or to convict the accused, it must prove a corpus delicti, that is, the occurrence of a specific in...
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The body of the offence; the essence of the crime.
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Corpus delicti is Latin for the substance of the offence
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n] - the body of evidence that constitute the offence
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corpus delicti Body of the crime. The basic [or body] of facts [necessary to prove the existence of a specific crime]. This refers to evidence which can be used to convict a thief; such as, catching him with stolen goods; or proof in a murder trial of the actual death of the victim. It does not mean the body of the victim. Another translation: 'T...
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The body of the offence
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noun 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)
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the basic element or fact of a crime, as, in murder, the death of the murdered person. · the object, as the body of a murdered person, upon which a crime has been committed and that serves as evidence proving that the crime was committed.
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