brocard

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brocard - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
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           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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