corpus

(Lat.) Body; the body; an aggregate or mass, (of men, laws or articles 0 physical substance, as distinguished from intellectual conception; the principal sum or capital, as distinguished from interest or income. A substantial or positive fact, as distin-gnished from what is equivocal and ambiguous. The corpus delicti (body of an offense) is the fact 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. The word occurs frequently in this sense in the civil law. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 248.

— Corpus comitatus. The body of a county. The whole county, as distingnished from a part of it, or any particular place in it U. S. v. Crush, 5 Mason, 290, Fed. Cas. No. 15,268.

— Corpus corporatum. A corporation ; a corporate body, other than municipal.

— Corpus cum causa. (The body with the cause.) An English writ which issued out of chancery, to remove both the body and the record, touching the cause of any man lying in execution upon a judgment for debt, into the king's bench, there to remnin until he satisfied the judgment. Cowell ; Blount.

— Corpus delicti. The body of a crime. 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. In a derivative sense, the substance or foundation of a crime; the substantial fact that a crime has been committed. People v. Dick, 37 Cal. 281; White . State, 49 Ala. 347; Goldman v. Co.m., 100 Va-865, 42 S. E. 923; State v. Hand, 1 Marv. (Del.) 545, 41 Atl. 192; State v. Dickson, 78 Mo. 441.

— Corpus pro corpore. In old records. Body for body. A phrase expressing the liability of manucaptors. 3 How. State Tr. 110.

I. A body; a human body; an artificial as a corporation; a body or collection of laws something visible and tangible, as the subject or positive fact, as distinguished from what biguous; a corporeal act of any kind, on the to acquire a thing whereby he obtains the his power over it Corpus corporatum: a body, other than municipal. Corpus delicti: or foundation of an offense; the fact of its the body or substance of a crime as distinguished lar form given to it by its connection with subject of a crime, or its visible effect, such burned. Corpus humannm uon recipit body does not admit of valuation. Corpus term introduced in the middle ages, to signify ing several collections of law; — canonici: law; — civilis: the body of the civil law, as tutes, Pandects, Code and Novels. Corpus body. A phrase expressing the liability of In old English laiv. Corpus cum causa: the writ which issued out of chancery, to remove record, touching the cause of a man lying ment for debt, into the King's Bench, there fied the judgment. Corpus comitatus: the county at large, as distinguished from any it V. De corpore comitatus. corporate name; incorpoendowed by law with the corporate; Body politic; Eleemosynary corpocorporation; Public corcorporation consisting of Corporation sole: a corposuccessors in some par- ' body, and by the mind; intent i; material. Corporeal of a material and tansenses, consisting wholly which may be compreland only. body created by law,; a material substance; of a right; a substantial is equivocal and ampart of one who wishes physical ability to exercise corporation; a corporate the body, substance having been committed; from the particuthe party accused; the as a body slain, a house %stimatiouem: the human juris: a body of law; a a book comprehendthe body of the canon composed of the Instipro corpore: body for manucaptors. body with the cause; a both the body and the in execution on a judgto remain until he satisbody of a county; the particular locality within in solido. Correi debendi: debtors in solido; two or more persons bound as principal debtors to another.

(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.

A body; also, the principal thing, the essential part, the substance. In several phrases it means the body or person of an individual, as see under Capere; Haberk. 1 [Gulliver v. Eoelle, 100 111. 147 (1881). 2 Memphis City o. Dean, 8 "Wall. 73 (18G8), cases; Davenport v. Downs, 18 id. 687 (1873), cases. ' Ang. & A. Corp, § 5; Toledo Bank v. Bond, 1 Ohio The corpus of an estate is the material object, or species of property, of which the estate is composed. It is this which, generally, is vested in a trustee, in distinction from the income of the estate, which is allotted to the beneficiary.! The corpus of a railroad is the roadway, embankment, superstructure, and equipment.'' Corpus comitatus. The body of the county. See Body, 3. Corpus delicti. The essential element of an offense: the fact that the particular crime alleged has been actually committed. To warrant a conviction for murder there must be direct proof either of the death, as by the finding and identification of the corpse, or of criminal violence adequate to produce death and exerted in such manas to account for the disappearance of the body. The corpus delicti in murder has two components: death as the result, and the criminal.agency of another as the means. Where there is direct proof of the one, the other can be established by circumstantial evidence.' The corpus delicti must be proved like any other fact, that is, beyond a reasonable doubt, and that doubt is for the jury. A confession alone is not regarded as suf Boient proof. The State must first produce sufficient evidence to send the case to the jury, and the jury are first to be satisfied, from that evidence, that the crime has been committed.* The doctrine applies to other crimes, as, larceny. The possession of the fruits of a crime may do away with direct proof of the corpus delicti.^ Corpus Juris Civilis. See Pandects. CORRELATIVE OBLiaATIONS. See Assent.

/. Body. The capital all the inhabitants of a county, cum causa: v. Habeas corpus. of the fault): the fact that a the subject of the crime, or num non recipit sestimationem ceptible of valuation. Corpus body of the civil or Roman Institutes, the Pandects, or Justinian. The latter includes cretals, the Sixth Decretal, the Extravagants of John and his Law. Correi credendi, debendi, /. debtors in solido. coronae: pleas of the crown, orimimagistrate authorized to inquire conand treasure-trove. They peace, in certain cases replacing by laying hand on the Gospels; a sestimationem de futuro, I. receive satisfaction from a future person, persisting through the members. It has power to act or seal, and to regulate its actions sole if consisting of one perthan one person at the same time; of re Kgious persons for spiritual for secular purposes. Lay corpocorporations, existing for puror charitable. The former as counties, townships, vilwhich exist for the pubho incorporations. of a fund. Corpus comitatus; the county at large. Corpus Corpus delicti (the substance crime has actually been committed; its visible effect. Corpus huma-: the human body is not susjuris civilis or canonici: the canon law. The former includes the

Lat. [from corpus, a body.] That which has a body or material substance; corporeal. Corporales res; corporeal things; things which may be touched and seen; such as land, garments, gold and silver, &c., comprising both moveables and immoveables. Bract, fol. 7 b, 10 b, 13 b. That which relates to, or affects the body; bodily; personal. Corporalis injuria non recipit aestimationem de futuro. A personal injury does not receive satisfaction from a future course of proceeding [is not left for its satisfaction to a future course of proceeding]. Bacon's Max. 34, regula 6. The law, in many cases that concern lands or goods, doth deprive a man of his present remedy, and turneth him over to a further circuit of remedy, rather than to suffer an inconvenience; but if it be a question of personal pain, the law will not compel him to sustain it and expect remedy, because it holdeth no damage a sufficient recompense for a wrong which is corporal. Id. ibid. This maxim seems to embody the general principle of law which allows to personal injuries the speediest course of remedy.

a latin word which of the crime; corpus juris canonis, the body of the canon law; corpus juris civilis, the body of the civil law.