Crossword clues for salic
salic
- Relating to the Frankish people
- Of an ancient Frank
- Describing an ancient law
- Kind of law
- Germanic law code
- ___ law (Frankish code)
- Early code of laws
- -- law (old Germanic legal code)
- ___ law
- ___ law, excluding women from the throne
- ___ law forbidding women rulers
- ___ law (early Frankish legal code)
- ___ law (code of the Franks)
- __ law (medieval code)
- ___ law (ancient code)
- ___ law (old Germanic legal code)
- ___ law (old Frankish code)
- ___ law (early Germanic legal code)
- ___ law (early legal code)
- Franks' ___ law
- Of a Frankish people
- Of certain Franks
- ___ law (Germanic code)
- ___ law, used by the Franks
- Franks' code of laws
- Law of the Franks
- Of a mineral group
- Pertaining to a Frankish group
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 Salic[ae].] Of or pertaining to the Salian Franks, or to the Salic law so called. [Also salique.] Salic law.
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.
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"based on or contained in the law code of the Salian Franks," 1540s, from French Salique, from Medieval Latin Salicus, from the Salian Franks, a tribe that once lived near the Zuider Zee, the ancestors of the Merovingian kings, literally "those living near the river Sala" (modern Ijssel).\n
\nSalic Law, code of law of Germanic tribes, was invoked 1316 by Philip V of France to exclude a woman from succeeding to the throne of France (and later to combat the French claims of Edward III of England), but the precise meaning of the passage is unclear.
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "salic".
Latin countries we have what we call Salic law, which means that only your son can inherit the throne.
War the king of England, as duc de Guyenne, a title he had inherited from his grandfather, was subject to Salic law too.
John the Good and what he did as an act of policy to accommodate the Salic principle.
They traveled through the afternoon-stalked always by the Programmed Killers-and at dusk they came to Goslar the City of the Salic Emperors.
The Salic Emperors had their origins as an underground university fraternity in Wu Town.
From the founding, there had always been one Salic Emperor in residence at Goslar.
And they had pursued and killed the Salic Emperors, just as they were pursuing and would finally kill every threatening member of the Thomas More party.
But there was a peculiarity about the succession of the Salic Emperors that paralleled that of the robot killer species.
Archbishop to break down the validity of the Salic law, which he does at great length in a passage taken by Shakespeare from Holinshed.
The Salic law was always taken to apply to all the territory ruled by the Frankish monarchs.
Pepin as a case in which the Salic law was broken is therefore worthless, really.
Edmund of March inherited through a woman, the daughter of that third son of Edward III, but since England did not recognize a Salic law and since Henry V would go to war rather than recognize it in France, how could he deny that March did not have a better claim than himself to the crowns of both countries?
In England there was no Salic law, and the female could transmit the succession.
My mother, save for our infernal Salic law of inheritance, was entitled to half the Westfall estate.
Spain died, in 1833, after a reign broken and disturbed by the passage of that human cyclone, Napoleon the Great, he bequeathed his kingdom, in defiance of the Salic law, to his daughter Isabella.