brocard

Noun

(plural brocards)

(law) A legal principle usually expressed in Latin, traditionally used to concisely express a wider legal concept or rule.

Origin

From French brocard, cognate with Medieval Latin brocarda, brocardicorum opus, a collection of canonical laws written by the bishop Burchard of Worms.

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Brocard, Essai sur la Mete'orologie de Kepler (Grenoble, 1 879, 1881); Siegmund Gunther, Johannes Kepler and der tellurischkosmische Magnetismus (Wien, 1888); N.
A historical bibliography of these curves is given in Brocard, Notes de bibliographie des courbes geometriques (1897).

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