Corpus

(Lat.) Body; the body; an aggregate or mass, (of men, laws, or articles;) physical substance, as distinguished from intellectual conception; the principal sum or capital, as distinguished from interest or ineome. A substantial or positive fact, as distinguished from what is equivocal and ambiguous. The corpus deliclé (body of an offense) is the fuct of its having been actually committed.

Best, Pres. 269-279.

A corporeal act of any kind, (as distinguished from animus or mere intention,) on the part of him who wishes to acquire a thing, whereby he obtains the physical ability to exercise his power over it whenever he pleases. Tho word occurs frequently in this sense in the civillaw.

Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 248.