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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...
Participes plures sunt quasi unum corpus, in eo quod unum jus habent, et oportet quod corpus sit intergum et quod in nulla parte sit defectus
Participes plures sunt quasi unum corpus, in eo quod unum jus habent, et oportet quod corpus sit intergum et quod in nulla parte sit defectus [Lat.], several partners are as one body, inasmuch as they have one right, and it is necessary that the body be perfect, and that there be defect in no part....
Corpus Christi Day
Corpus Christi Day, the 2nd June, a feast instituted in 1264 in honour of the Blessed Sacrament, and on which fairs and markets are prohibited by the still unrepealed 27 Hen. 6, c. 5, but which is omitted from the list of 'hollie daies' prescribed and limited by 5 & 6 Edw. 6, c. 2 By 32 Hen. 8, c. 21 [repealed by (English) Stat. Law Rev. Act, 1873], a full Trinity Term was directed to begin on the Friday next after Corpus Christi Day....
Corpus juris civilis
Corpus juris civilis. The three great compilations of Justinian, the Institutes, the Pandects, and the Code, together with the Novell', form one body of law, and were considered as such by the glossatores, who divided it into five volumina. The Pandects were distributed into five volumina, under the respective names of Digestum Vetus, Infortiatum, and Digestum Novum. The fourth volume contained the first nine books of the Codex Repetit' Pr'lectionis. The fifth volume contained the Institutes, the Liber Authenticorum or Novell', and the three last books of the Codex. The division into five volumina appears in the oldest editions; but the usual arrangement now is the Institutes, Pandects, the Codex, and Novell'. The name Corpus Juris Civilis was not given to this collection by Justinian, nor by any of the glossatores. Savigny asserts that the name was used in the twelfth century: at any rate, it became common from the date of the edition of D.Gothofredus of 1604, Smith's Dict....
Paedo-corpus juris
Paedo-corpus juris, a body of law wholly made for children and child rights, 'No socially important legislation can fulfill itself without the mobilization of the society who legal mobilization is the catalyst tor paedo corpus-juris' [A Code for Child Rights in Legally Speaking p. 186 (190)] (Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer)...
corpus
corpus pl: cor·po·ra [-pə-rə] : the main body of a thing ;specif : the principal of a fund, trust, or estate as distinct from income or interest : res ...
corpus juris
corpus juris [Medieval Latin, literally, a body of law] : a comprehensive collection of the law of a judicial system or of a country or jurisdiction ...
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