Sample Sentences forcorpus delicti (editor-reviewed)
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The court concluded that corpus delicti was established by the presented circumstantial. evidence.corpus delicti = proof a crime occurred
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Today it was about whether—in the case of homicide—the corpus delicti is the knife or the dead man whose death is the actual proof of the crime. (source)corpus delicti = proof that a crime has been committed
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The boy's father said, This photograph was the only corpus delicti. (source)
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"Don't you see?" said the Thenardier, pointing to the corpus delicti which lay at Cosette's feet. (source)
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"But Lors ha' massy, how did you get near such mud as that?" said Sally, making a wry face, as she stooped down and examined the corpus delicti. (source)
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He did not want word to get out that Tereza was sleeping at his place: spending the night together was the corpus delicti of love. (source)
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We have here damning evidence, the corpus delicti, my lord, a specimen of my maturer work disfigured by the hallmark of the beast
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corpus delicti = proof that a crime has been committed
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