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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)

Synonyms:

• ashes,
• body,
• bones,
• cadaver,
• carcass,
• carrion,
• circumstantial evidence,
• clay,
• collateral evidence,
• corpse,
• crowbait,
• cumulative evidence,
• dead body,
• dead man,
• dead person,
• decedent,
• direct evidence,
• documentary evidence,
• dry bones,
• dust,
• earth,
• embalmed corpse,
• evidence in chief,
• ex parte evidence,
• extrinsic evidence,
• food for worms,
• hearsay,
• hearsay evidence,
• incriminating evidence,
• indirect evidence,
• intrinsic evidence,
• late lamented,
• mortal remains,
• mummification,
• mummy,
• oral evidence,
• organic remains,
• presumptive evidence,
• prima facie evidence,
• relics,
• reliquiae,
• remains,
• skeleton,
• stiff,
• tenement of clay,
• the dead,
• the deceased,
• the defunct,
• the departed,
• the loved one,
• word-of-mouth evidence