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Corpus Delicti (Latin)

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The fundamental fact that a crime has really been committed; thus finding a murdered body is “corpus delicti” that a murder has been committed by someone.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Coroner
Coronet
Coronis
Corporal Violet
Corporation
Corps de Garde (French)
Corps Diplomatique (French)
Corps Legislatif (French)
Corpse Candle
Corpus Christi [body of Christ]
Corpus Delicti (Latin)
Corpuscular Philosophy
Corrector
Correggio
Corroboree
Corrouge
Corrugated Iron
Corrupticolæ
Corruption of Blood
Corsair
Corsned