Corpus Delicti

  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

Corpus Delicti

Definition: Corpus Delicti

Corpus Delicti

Noun

1. 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).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Corpus Delicti

DomainDefinition

Literature

Corpus Delicti (Latin). The fundamental fact that a crime has really been committed; thus finding a murdered body is "corpus delicti" that a murder has been committed by someone. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Specialty Definition: Corpus delicti

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Corpus delicti (from Latin: "body of crime") term from Western jurisprudence which refers to the principle that it must be proven that a crime has occurred, before a person can be tried for the crime. For example, a person cannot be tried for larceny, unless it can be proven that property has been stolen. Likewise, in order for a person to be tried for arson, it must be proven that a criminal act resulted in the burning of a property. Black's Law Dictionary (6th ed.) defines "corpus delicti" as: "the fact of a crime having been actually committed."

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Corpus delicti."

Top     

Synonyms within Context: Corpus Delicti

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Guilt

Corpus delicti.

Lawsuit

Pleadings; declaration, bill, claim; proces verbal; bill of right, information, corpus delicti; affidavit, state of facts; answer, reply, replication, plea, demurrer, rebutter, rejoinder; surrebutter, surrejoinder.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Top     

Crosswords: Corpus Delicti

Non-English Usage: "Corpus Delicti" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

German (corpus delicti).

Top     

Commercial Usage: Corpus Delicti

DomainTitle

Books

  • Corpus Delicti (reference)

  • Corpus Delicti of Mystery Fiction: A Guide to the Body of the Case. (reference)

  • Corpus delicti, 24.VI.1956 (reference)

  • The Corpus Delicti [DOWNLOAD: MICROSOFT READER] (reference)

  • The telltale corpus delicti (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Corpus Delicti

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

corpus delicti

9

corpus delicti discography

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Modern Translation: Corpus Delicti

Language Translations for "corpus delicti"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

corpus delicti. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

corpus delicti, feiten, bewijsstuk (document in proof, document in support, documentary evidence, evidence, exhibit, proof, source document, supporting documents, voucher). (various references)

   

French

  

corps du délit. (various references)

   

German

  

Corpus delicti. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σώμα του εγκλήματος. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

orpuscay elictiday

   

Russian 

  

состав преступления (corpus delecti). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cuerpo del delito. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

somut delil, kurbanın cesedi. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Top     

Anagrams: Corpus Delicti

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-d-e-i-i-l-o-p-r-s-t-u"

-3 letters: clitorides, coscripted, pedicurist, proclitics, solicitude, uricotelic.

-4 letters: circuited, cloudiest, clupeoids, codirects, corpuscle, courtside, cricetids, croupiest, crudities, delicious, delirious, depictors, dipterous, diuretics, doleritic, ecliptics, elicitors, idiolects, licorices, occulters, occupiers, outpriced, outprices, peridotic, pleuritic, poulticed, poultices, poultries, proclitic, pulicides, ridicules, sclerotic, solicited, spirituel, sporicide, supercoil, tricuspid, triploids, tripodies, utilidors.

-5 letters: circlets, circuits, citreous, cleidoic, clitoric.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Top     



INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.