Corpus Delicti
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat. The body, substance or foundation of an offence. The substantial and fundamental fact of its having been committed.
Lord Stowell, 1 Haggard's C, i?. 105. Best on Presumpturns, 269, § 201, e^ seq,