Corpora Delicti - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: corpora delicticorpora delicti
The substantial and fundamental fact necessary to prove the commission of a crime.The material substance (as the body of the victim of a murder) upon which a crime has been committed....
corpus delicti
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 ...
In atrocioribus delictis, punitur affectus licet non sequatur effectus
In atrocioribus delictis, punitur affectus licet non sequatur effectus [Lat.], in the more atrocious crimes the intent is punished, though no act results.The term 'inam' connotes a gift or reward, Subramania Gurukkal v. P. Devasthanam, 1993 Supp (4) SCC 519 (526)....
Lex loci delicti
Lex loci delicti (the law of the place of the tort or wrong)....
Ob continentiam delicti
Ob continentiam delicti, means on account of contiguity to the offense; being contaminated by association with something illegal, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1100...
corpora
corpora pl of corpus ...
Habeas corpora juratorum
Habeas corpora juratorum, Law Latin (that you have the bodies of the jurors), a process which issued out of the Court of Common Pleas, commanding the sheriff to summon a jury. The practice was similar to the distringas from the King's Bench and Exchequer for the same purpose. Abolished by C.L.O. Act, 1852, s. 104.Is a writ or order requiring that a prisoner be brought before a court at a stated time and place to decide the legality of his detention or imprison-ment, Webster American Dictionary, p. 856.Commands the Judge of the inferior court to produce the body of the defendant with a statement of the cause of his detention, to do and to receive what-ever the higher court shall decree, A Dictionary of Law, William C. Anderson, 1889, p. 500.Is a high prerogative writ of English Common Law, Habeas Corpus Act of 1979 and 1816 are basis of security for the enjoyment of personal freedom, Webster American Dictionary, p. 856.In India every High Court is empowered to issue the prerogative writ...
Corporace
See Corporas...
Corporas
The corporal or communion cloth...
Hematoidin
A crystalline or amorphous pigment free from iron formed from hematin in old blood stains and in old hemorrhages in the body It resembles bilirubin When present in the corpora lutea it is called haeligmolutein...
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