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- noun law Plural form of
brocard .
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Examples
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-- This is one of the most ordinary maxims or "brocards" of the common law of Scotland, and implies that the employer is responsible for the acts of his servant or agent, done on his employment.
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Jackies on the outside of the partition with tops, balls, bats, and battledores, as a member of the long-robed fraternity within, who impose on grown country gentlemen with bouncing brocards of law.
Redgauntlet 2008
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"Ils me chargeoient incessament de mille brocards & de mille injures; je me suis veu en tel estat, que pour ne les aigrir, je passois les jours entiers sans ouvrir la bouche."
The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century Francis Parkman 1858
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They declared that the whole rock was auriferous; stamping-mills, brocards, and smelting-furnaces were constructed.
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Royalist brocards; sniffs, huffs, and open insults.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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For the jibes (brocards) of those Parisians, who stand planted in two rows, all the way to St. Denis, and 'give vent to their pleasantry, the characteristic of the nation,' do not tempt one to slacken.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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They declared that the whole rock was auriferous; stamping-mills, brocards, and smelting-furnaces were constructed.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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Jackies on the outside of the partition with tops, balls, bats, and battledores, as a member of the long-robed fraternity within, who impose on grown country gentlemen with bouncing brocards of law.
Redgauntlet Walter Scott 1801
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