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ALIBI (Lat. for "elsewhere")

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 661 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALIBI (See also:Lat. for "elsewhere")  , in See also:law, the See also:defence resorted to in criminal prosecutions, where the See also:person charged alleges that he was so far distant at the See also:time from the See also:place where the See also:crime was committed that he could not have been guilty . An See also:alibi, if substantiated, is the most conclusive See also:proof of innocence .

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