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The 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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