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Webster 1913 Edition
Brocard
Broc′ard
,Noun.
[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.