Salique

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Salique \Sal"ique\ (? or ?), a. [F.]
     Salic. --Shak.
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           She fulmined out her scorn of laws salique. --Tennyson.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Salic \Sal"ic\ (s[a^]l"[i^]k), a. [F. salique, fr. the Salian
     Franks, who, in the fifth century, formed a body of laws
     called in Latin leges Salicae.]
     Of or pertaining to the Salian Franks, or to the Salic law so
     called. [Also {salique}.]
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     {Salic law}.
     (a) A code of laws formed by the Salian Franks in the fifth
         century. By one provision of this code women were
         excluded from the inheritance of landed property.
     (b) Specifically, in modern times, a law supposed to be a
         special application of the above-mentioned provision, in
         accordance with which males alone can inherit the throne.
         This law has obtained in France, and at times in other
         countries of Europe, as Spain.
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