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Salic law

Sal·ic law


noun 
Definition:
 
law against female succession: a law excluding women from the right to succeed to the throne that formerly applied in France and some other European monarchies. The prohibition was supposedly founded on a law of the Salians that prevented women from inheriting land in some areas.

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