salic law in English

noun
1
a law excluding females from dynastic succession, especially as the alleged fundamental law of the French monarchy.
Instead they consisted of general principles such as the inalienability of the royal domain, the Salic law of succession (through the direct male line), and, after the conversion of Henri IV in 1593, that the king should be a Catholic.
2
a Frankish law book extant in Merovingian and Carolingian times.
There are signs that early Frankish villages - or groups of villages - had local courts, run by local judicial experts called rachimburgi, who knew an oral version of Salic law , and could be instructed to ‘speak’ it by litigants.

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1. Nor could he disregard the Salic Law which forbade the accession to the throne of a woman.

2. At birth, she was not in line to the throne, because until 1990, only males could inherit the Norwegian throne (Salic law).

3. Since 1714, Britain had shared a monarch with Hanover in Germany, but under Salic law women were excluded from the Hanoverian succession.

4. The title continues with agnatic primogeniture and Salic law like the order of succession in the House of Hanover and in the House of Liechtenstein.

5. Chapters 32-64 are taken directly from the Salic Law; the provisions follow the same arrangement; the unit of the compositions is 15 solidi; but capitularies are interpolated relating to the affranchisement and sale of immovable property.