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corpus delicti
noun(cor-pus de-lic-ti)
the substantial and fundamental fact necessary to prove the commission of a crime
corpus delicti
noun(cor-pus de-lic-ti)
the material substance (such as the body of the victim of a murder) upon which a crime has been committed

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