A brocard is the legal maxim in Latin that is, in a strict sense, derived from traditional legal authorities, even from ancient Rome. The word is a variant of the Latinized name of Burchard of Worms died ad 1025, Bishop of Worms, Germany, who compiled 20 volumes of Ecclesiastical Rules.
Begun in advertising 1008, the materials took Burchard four years to compile. He wrote it while living in a small structure on top of a hill in the forest external Worms, after his defeat of Duke Otto as well as while raising his adopted child. The collection, which he called the Collectarium Canonum or Decretum, became a primary ingredient of mention for canon law.
Along with many documents from a breed of sources, including the Old Testament & Saint Augustine of Hippo, Burchard pointed the Canon Episcopi in this collection, under the conception that it dated from an episcopal "Council of Anquira" in AD 314, but no other evidence of this council exists. Because of this inclusion, Burchard has been described as something of a rationalist. As the detail of reference of canon law, Burchard's Decretum was supplanted around 1150 by the Decretum Gratiani, a much larger collection that further attempted to reconcile contradictory elements of canon law.
Burchard spent the years 1023 to 1025 promulgating Leges et Statuta Familiae S. Petri Wormatiensis, a collection of religious laws he endorsed as just in addition to hoped to shit officially approbated.
Although the talem qualem, de minimis not curat lex, and consensus ad idem, the common law is not premised on the principles of civil law, and their usage is being replaced by that of vernacular substitutes. For example, Black's Law Dictionary previously included many brocards among its entries.
Although the Romans did not conquer Scotland, Scots Law is a mixed legal system in which "brocards are regarded as component of the common law".