Casper's dictum refers to -: (A) Rate of putrefaction, (B) Rigor mois, (C) Rate of cooling of body, (D) Greenish discoloration of another abdominal skin
Answer is A. Caspers dictum states that a body decomposes in air twice as rapidly as in water and eight times as rapidly in eah. Dr. Narayana Reddys Synopsis of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology 27 th edition pg. 86.