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corpus de·lic·ti
n, pl corpora delicti 1 : the substantial and fundamental fact (as, in murder, actual death and its occurrence as a result of criminal agency) necessary to prove the commission of a crime 2 : the material substance (as the body of the victim of a murder) upon which a crime has been committed .
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