Each woman is a brief of womankind.
Overbury.
3. (Law) An abridgment or concise statement of a client's case, made out for the instruction of counsel in a trial at law. This word is applied also to a statement of the heads or points of a law argument.
It was not without some reference to it that I perused many a brief.
Sir J. Stephen.
In England, the brief is prepared by the attorney; in the United States, counsel generally make up their own briefs.