brocard (law)

The Brocarda (also Brocardica ) were collections of concise legal arguments which together were medieval jurists in Bologna as support for processes. They found against particular arguments and counter- arguments and substantiated it with citations. Since 1180 they have been handed assignable fonts in individual authors. Among the important Brocardasammlungen are the oldest: the anonymous canonist Brocarda de praesumptionibus " Hic locus in iudiciis ", the Libellus disputatorius of Pilius and Brocardica Dolum by subsequentia purgari (presumably by Otto Papiensis ). Important younger Brocardicasammlungen are: the second version of the Libellus disputatorius of Pilius (about 1195), the Brocardica of Richardus Anglicus (before 1198 ), the Brocardica aurea of the azo (before 1204/ 09) and the Brocardica of Damasus of Hungary ( 1210/15 ).

The term is also used for the Decretum, the canonical law collection of Burchard of Worms ( † 1025), used that French and Italians after the name of the author ( Brocard ) Brocardica or Brocardicorum opus called. However, it is derived from broccus Latin for " protruding (of the teeth of animals) " and Romansh for " skewer ." The Brocardica were thus in the Bolognese legal jargon " process weapons."