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As far as I recall, this usually refers to the place in which a trial occurs, but could also therefore mean the general area in which the crime was committed.
The use this outside the legal context is, I think, much more recent—I think I recall a NYT letter protesting its use for things like concerts and sporting events a few years ago.
Each crime has elements that must be proven to show that a crime did, indeed, take place. This gives us our corpus delicti, or body of the crime. And any good crime should also have a location, or locus delicti.
Actually, I was thinking that a crime could be committed anywhere….. You didn’t ask what the “Coppers” called it…. “Just the Facts, Sir”…… And, I thought Corpus Delicti was a city in Texas…….
June 5th, 2007 at 9:16 pm
Venue?
As far as I recall, this usually refers to the place in which a trial occurs, but could also therefore mean the general area in which the crime was committed.
The use this outside the legal context is, I think, much more recent—I think I recall a NYT letter protesting its use for things like concerts and sporting events a few years ago.
June 6th, 2007 at 12:42 am
Scene, as in scene of the crime.
June 6th, 2007 at 11:21 am
All good an answers, but no. Think Latin. You will recognize it as soon as you hear it.
June 6th, 2007 at 11:58 am
Each crime has elements that must be proven to show that a crime did, indeed, take place. This gives us our corpus delicti, or body of the crime. And any good crime should also have a location, or locus delicti.
June 6th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
Right on Izard. Your first big plus five points. And no MR, It doesn’t mean delicious grasshoppers. Just forget the corpus part too.
June 7th, 2007 at 10:26 am
Actually, I was thinking that a crime could be committed anywhere….. You didn’t ask what the “Coppers” called it…. “Just the Facts, Sir”…… And, I thought Corpus Delicti was a city in Texas…….
June 7th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
MR, not bad enough for a minus 5. Try again.
June 7th, 2007 at 7:34 pm
Would I have gotten minus 5 if I said the answer was Washington D.C.?…… Crimes are committed there semi-secondly and passed by majority…….
June 7th, 2007 at 8:26 pm
OK….thats bad