词汇 | corpus delicti |
词源 | corpus delicti. Corpus delicti, first recorded in 1832, is not the corpse in a murder case, as is commonly thought. The term, translating from the Latin as “the body of the offense,” refers to the basic element of a crime, which in a murder would be the death of the murdered person. |
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