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To: pepsionice

Doesn’t corpus delicti mean “delicious corpse?”


6 posted on 10/21/2019 12:18:08 AM PDT by Rastus
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9 posted on 10/21/2019 12:26:26 AM PDT by Peter ODonnell (Nobody reads this anyway so here's my password: *************)
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To: Rastus

Corpus means ‘a body’. Delicti typically means ‘an offense’. So it’d mean, upon coming to a Roman murder scene, and finding the body had been assaulted in some fashion....’corpus delicti’ has occurred.


14 posted on 10/21/2019 12:51:47 AM PDT by pepsionice
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