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This is an excerpt from the Sequence for today. I left out 2+ pages to make reading the Latin easier. Be flexible as you read, reordering words, as English word order differs. Because the Latin rhymes, the translators made the English rhyme. Not easy.

From corpus we get corpus delicti, a common law Latin phrase that translates to “body of the crime.” The phrase generally refers to the principle that no one should be convicted of a crime without sufficient evidence that the crime occurred.

The singular nominative masculine of delicti, meaning offenses, is delictus, and the perfect passive participle is delinquo, meaning failed, from which we get delinquent.​