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Definition of Corpus delicti
1. 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
1. Noun. (legal) The body of the victim ¹
2. Noun. (legal) The evidence that a crime has occurred. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Corpus Delicti
Literary usage of Corpus delicti
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Brief for the Trial of Criminal Cases by Austin Abbott, William Constantine Beecher (1902)
"99, hold that no prior proof of the corpus delicti is necessary in order to ...
Evidence of corpus delicti not incompetent merely because relating to the ..."
2. Lectures on Jurisprudence, Or, The Philosophy of Positive Law by John Austin (1885)
"XXIV corpus delicti. Further remarks on the import of the word Dolus. ... To adopt
the current phrase, there is not the corpus delicti which will sustain a ..."
3. A Treatise on the System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law: Including the by John Henry Wigmore (1904)
"Bennett, 49 NY 137, 143 : " The corpus delicti has two components, viz., Death
as the result, and the criminal agency of another as the mean. ..."
4. The General Principles of the Law of Evidence: In Their Application to the by Frank Sumner Rice (1894)
"The corpus delicti comprehends the essential elements of an offense—the fact that
the ... The corpus delicti must be proved like any other fact, that is, ..."
5. A Treatise on the Law of Indirect and Collateral Evidence by John Henry Gillett (1897)
"Meaning of term corpus delicti—How proved.—The terra corpus delicti is defined
... 1 Thus, as applied to a murder case, proof of the corpus delicti is not ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law of Criminal Evidence: Including the Rules Regulating by Harry Clay Underhill (1898)
"Circumstantial evidence to prove corpus delicti in trial for homicide.—The rule
seems at one time to have prevailed that a conviction could not be sustained ..."
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