-- law (old Germanic legal code)

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.