brocard

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹəʊkəd/, /ˈbɹəʊkɑːd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹoʊkɚd/, /ˈbɹoʊkɑːd/

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• Homophone: brokered

brocard (plural brocards)

1. (law) A legal principle usually expressed in Latin, traditionally used to concisely express a wider legal concept or rule.
   • 1860, “The Journal of Jurisprudence”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume IV, Edinburgh, page 414:

     The other question was as to the proper legal meaning of the brocard, “heres heredis mei est heres meus.”

   • 1853, Samuel Owen, “The New York Legal Observer”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume XI, pages 73–4:

     Blackstone, with a like tenderness of conscience, endeavors to withdraw a single case, a sale of provisions, from the old brocard caveat emptor, and tells us that in such a contract there is a warranty that the provisions are wholesome.

• IPA^(key): /bʁɔ.kaʁ/

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brocard m (plural brocards)

1. mockery, ridicule

• brocarder

• “brocard”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

brocard n (plural brocarduri)

1. Obsolete form of brocart.

• brocard in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN