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Corpus Delicti

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

corpus delicti


[New Latin, literally, the body of the offense]
: the substance of a crime that the prosecutor must prove and that consists of an injury or loss (as death of a victim or disappearance of property) and the criminal act that resulted in it




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