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Definition: Brocard
Brocard
\Broc"ard\, n. [Perh. fr. Brocardica, Brocardicorum
opus, a collection of ecclesiastical canons by Burkhard,
Bishop of Worms, called, by the Italians and French,
Brocard.]
An elementary principle or maximum; a short, proverbial rule,
in law, ethics, or metaphysics.
[1913 Webster]
The legal brocard,
“Falsus in uno, falsus in
omnibus,” is a rule not more applicable to other
witness than to consciousness. --Sir W.
Hamilton.
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