10 September 2018

Salic law

noun

1. a code of laws of the Salian Franks and other Germanic tribes, especially a provision in this code excluding females from the inheritance of land.
2. the alleged fundamental law of the French monarchy by which females were excluded from succession to the crown.
3. any law to the same effect.

Origin of Salic law

1540-1550 First recorded in 1540-50

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Examples from the Web for Salic law

Historical Examples

The texts of the Salic law give us incontrovertible evidence.
The Common Law
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

By the Salic law no woman or descendant of a woman could occupy the throne.
What Is Man? And Other Stories
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

But the common and vulgar fool says: Must observe the Salic law.
The book of the ladies
Pierre de Bourdeille Brantme

Anagram

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