Brocard \\Broc"ard\\, n. [Perh. fr. Brocardica, Brocardicorum Broc\"ard 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.