Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun corpus_delicti

1 sense of corpus delicti

Sense 1
corpus delicti -- (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))
       => evidence -- ((law) all the means by which any alleged matter of fact whose truth is investigated at judicial trial is established or disproved)