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brocards

brocards is the plural of brocard.

Meaning of brocard

Noun

brocard (plural brocards)

  1. A legal principle usually expressed in Latin, traditionally used to concisely express a wider legal concept or rule.
    • The other question was as to the proper legal meaning of the brocard, “heres heredis mei est heres meus.”1860, “The Journal of Jurisprudence”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume IV, Edinburgh, page 414

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Questions about brocards

What is brocards the plural of?
Brocards is the plural of brocard.

Words near brocards in the dictionary

  1. Brocard triangles
  2. Brocard's conjecture
  3. Brocard's problem
  4. Brocardian
  5. brocardic
  6. brocards
  7. Brocas
  8. brocast
  9. brocasts
  10. brocatel
  11. brocatelle

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