<P> Corpus delicti (Latin: "body of the crime"; plural: corpora delicti) is a term from Western jurisprudence referring to the principle that a crime must be proved to have occurred before a person can be convicted of committing that crime . </P> <P> For example, a person cannot be tried for larceny unless it can be proven that property has been stolen . Likewise, in order for a person to be tried for arson it must be proven that a criminal act resulted in the burning of a property . Black's Law Dictionary (6th ed .) defines "corpus delicti" as: "the fact of a crime having been actually committed". </P>

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