Salic law
- a code of laws of Germanic tribes, including the Salian Franks; esp., the provision of this code excluding women from inheriting land
- the law excluding women from succeeding to the throne in the French and Spanish monarchies
See Salic law in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun- The legal code of the Salian Franks.
- A law, thought to derive from the code of laws of the Salian Franks, prohibiting a woman from succeeding to a throne.
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