CORPORA DELICTI, The Significant Detail. The Corpus Delicti is the evidence of a crime. The term denotes the formation of a proof that allows the unmasking of a perpetrator. In the realm of interpretation and language, it could reveal matter on which an action or a chain of actions depends, and what can, from an analytical viewpoint, determine a median point or a reference pont: 'the significant detail'. In this case in Architecture.