ALIBI

AL'IBI, noun [Latin] Elsewhere; in another place; a law term. When a person is charged with an offense, and he proves that he could not have committed it, because he was, at the time, in another place, he is said to prove an alibi The part of a plea or allegation, which avers the party to have been in another place, is also called an alibi

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alibi. Alibi, n. a plea of being elsewhere

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Al″i‐bi (�), n. [[L., elsewhere, at another place. See Alias.]] (Law) The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove that he was in another place when the alleged act was committed; as, to set up an alibi; to prove an alibi.