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brocard |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 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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