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* Salic , Salique Law *

SALIC , SALIQUE LAW - The Common Law of France.

The name of a code of laws so called from the Salians, a people of Germany, who settled in Gaul under their king Phararaond.

The most remarkable law of this code is that which regards succession. De terra vero salica nulla portio haereditatis transit in mulierem, sed hoc viriles sextus acquirit, hoc est filii in ipsa haereditate succedunt; no part of the salique land passes to females, but the males alone are capable of taking, that is the sons succeed to the inheritance. This rule has ever excluded females from the throne of France.
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