Corpus Delicti
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
The body of a erime. The body (material substance) upon which a crime has been committed, e. g., the corpse of a murdered man, the charred remains of a house burned down, Inaderivative sense, the substance or foundation of a erime; the substantial fact that a crime has been committed. Corpus humanum non recipit sesti-