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Corpus delicti (Latin for "body of the crime"; plural: corpora delicti), in Western law, is the principle that a crime must be proved to have occurred before a person can be convicted of committing that crime. For example, a person cannot be tried for larceny unless it can be proven that property has been stolen.
body of the crime A person cannot be convicted of a crime, unless it can be proven that the crime was even committed. / ˈ k ɔːr p ə s d ɪ ˈ l ɪ k t aɪ / corpus juris: body of law The complete collection of laws of a particular jurisdiction or court. / ˈ k ɔːr p ə s ˈ dʒ uː r ɪ s / corpus juris civilis: body of civil law
The term is commonly used to refer to the entire body of law of a country, jurisdiction, or court, such as "the corpus juris of the Supreme Court of the United States." The phrase has been used in the European Union to describe the possibility of a European Legal Area, a European Public Prosecutor and a European Criminal Code.
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The canon law of the Catholic Church has all the ordinary elements of a mature legal system: laws, courts, lawyers, judges. [38] The canon law of the Latin Church was the first modern Western legal system, [39] and is the oldest continuously functioning legal system in the West.
The Corpus Juris (or Iuris) Civilis ("Body of Civil Law") is the modern name [1] for a collection of fundamental works in jurisprudence, enacted from 529 to 534 by order of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I. It is also sometimes referred to metonymically after one of its parts, the Code of Justinian.
CJS is named after the 6th century Corpus Juris Civilis of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I, the first codification of Roman law and civil law. The name Corpus Juris literally means 'body of the law'; Secundum denotes the second edition of the encyclopedia, which was originally issued as Corpus Juris by the American Law Book Company (from 1914 ...
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