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corpus delicti

  1. the facts constituting or proving a crime; material substance or foundation of a crime: the corpus delicti in a murder case is not just the body of the victim, but the fact that the victim has been murdered
  2. loosely the body of the victim in a murder case

See corpus delicti in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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