'Corpus delicti' definitions:
Definition of 'corpus delicti'
From: WordNet
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)
Definition of 'Corpus delicti'
From: GCIDE
- Corpus \Cor"pus\ (-p[u^]s), n.; pl. Corpora (-p[-o]*r[.a]). [L.] A body, living or dead; the corporeal substance of a thing. [1913 Webster]
- Corpus callosum (k[a^]l*l[=o]"s[u^]m); pl. {Corpora callosa} (-s?) [NL., callous body] (Anat.), the great band of commissural fibers uniting the cerebral hemispheres. See Brain.
- Corpus Christi (kr[i^]s"t[imac]) [L., body of Christ] (R. C. Ch.), a festival in honor of the eucharist, observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday.
- Corpus Christi cloth. Same as Pyx cloth, under Pyx.
- Corpus delicti (d[-e]*l[i^]k"t[imac]) [L., the body of the crime] (Law), the substantial and fundamental fact of the comission of a crime; the proofs essential to establish a crime.
- Corpus luteum (l[=u]"t[-e]*[u^]m); pl. Corpora lutea (-[.a]). [NL., luteous body] (Anat.), the reddish yellow mass which fills a ruptured Graafian follicle in the mammalian ovary.
- Corpus striatum (str[-i]*[=a]"t[u^]m); pl. {Corpora striata} (-t[.a]). [NL., striate body] (Anat.), a ridge in the wall of each lateral ventricle of the brain. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'corpus delicti'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ashes,
- body,
- bones,
- cadaver,
- carcass,
- carrion,
- circumstantial evidence,
- clay,
- collateral evidence,
- corpse,
- crowbait,
- cumulative evidence,
- dead body,
- dead man,
- dead person,
- decedent,
- direct evidence,
- documentary evidence,
- dry bones,
- dust,
- earth,
- embalmed corpse,
- evidence in chief,
- ex parte evidence,
- extrinsic evidence,
- food for worms,
- hearsay,
- hearsay evidence,
- incriminating evidence,
- indirect evidence,
- intrinsic evidence,
- late lamented,
- mortal remains,
- mummification,
- mummy,
- oral evidence,
- organic remains,
- presumptive evidence,
- prima facie evidence,
- relics,
- reliquiae,
- remains,
- skeleton,
- stiff,
- tenement of clay,
- the dead,
- the deceased,
- the defunct,
- the departed,
- the loved one,
- word-of-mouth evidence