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    The Salic law (/ˈsælɪk/ or /ˈseɪlɪk/; Latin: Lex salica), also called the Salian law, was the ancient Frankish civil law code compiled around AD 500 by...
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  • Salic Law is a solitaire card game using two decks of 52 playing cards each. It is named after the Salic Law which prohibits women from ascending to the...
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  • in a specified order (e.g., male-preference primogeniture, Salic primogeniture, semi-Salic primogeniture). Variations have tempered the traditional, sole-beneficiary...
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  • semi-Salic law until recently is Luxembourg, which changed to absolute primogeniture in 2011. Former monarchies that operated under semi-Salic law included...
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    his authority. Salic law was the ancient Frankish civil law code compiled around 500 AD by the first Frankish King, Clovis. Roman Law was written with...
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    Salian Franks (redirect from Salic Frank)
    Carbonaria, a region the Franks later called Neustria, was called the Salic law. Their dynasty, the Merovingians, were named after Childeric's father...
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  • Because of the Salic law of succession, all monarchs of Hanover were male, electors from 1692 until 1814 and kings from 1814 until 1866. Their wives were...
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    precedent for the French royal succession that would be known as the Salic law. Philip restored somewhat good relations with the County of Flanders,...
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  • Lex Ripuaria (redirect from Ripuarian law)
    of 15 solidi, as in the Salic Law, but on that of 18 solidi, it is clear that this part is already influenced by the Salic Law. Chapters 32-64 are taken...
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  • Salic may refer to: Salian Franks, one of the division of the Franks Salic law, a Frankish law code Salian dynasty, medieval German dynasty of Frankish...
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  • Pragmatic Sanction of 1830 (category 1830 in law)
    throne in the War of the Spanish Succession, he brought with him the Salic law, which restricted succession to the throne to the direct male line. However...
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  • Europe, ruling every form of provincial unit from kingdoms to manors. Salic law, re-established during the Hundred Years' War from an ancient Frankish...
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    be easy for me to prove that the Salic law did not absolutely exclude the daughters from the possession of the Salic land, but only in the case where...
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    Isabella's birth, her father issued the Pragmatic Sanction to revert the Salic Law and ensure the succession of his firstborn daughter, due to his lack of...
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    Company (redirect from Company (law))
    word companio ("one who eats bread with you"), first attested in the Salic law (c. AD 500) as a calque of the Germanic expression gahlaibo (literally...
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    traditionally been reckoned patrilineally, such as those that follow the Frankish Salic law. In polities where it was permitted, succession through a daughter usually...
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    Kingdom ended in 1837 upon the accession of Queen Victoria because semi-Salic law prevented females from inheriting the Hanoverian throne while a dynastic...
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    grand duke's household costs. Succession to the throne was governed by Salic law, as dictated by the Nassau Family Pact, first adopted on 30 June 1783...
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  • the family, the Schwerin branch itself is considered extinct due to the Salic law of succession, leaving Mecklenburg-Strelitz as the only remaining line...
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  • Württemberg, from its establishment in 1806 to its abolition in 1918. Salic law required all rulers of Württemberg to be male and so there was never a...
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    within the duchies themselves. The duchies were inherited according to Salic law among the descendants of a past heiress, Hedvig of Holstein, whose heir...
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  • whose descendants would later become Kings of France in accordance to the Salic law. In the present day, family representatives are the King of Spain and...
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    was also under so-called Semi-Salic Law, but its male line ended with Frederick VII and Danish law contained a Semi-Salic provision which resulted in the...
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    In contract law, a contract of sale, sales contract, sales order, or contract for sale is a legal contract for the purchase of assets (goods or property)...
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    were allowed to succeed to the throne. Luxembourg, however, followed Salic law which barred females from succession. Thus, upon King William III's death...
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    precedent in 1316 (later retroactively attributed to the Merovingian Salic law) which excluded females (Joan II of Navarre), as well as male descendants...
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    Salian dynasty (redirect from Salic dynasty)
    The Salian dynasty or Salic dynasty (German: Salier) was a dynasty in the High Middle Ages. The dynasty provided four kings of Germany (1024–1125), all...
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    Romanian throne during the monarchy's existence, in accordance with the Salic law enshrined in both the defunct royal Romanian Constitution of 1938 and...
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    Hanover ended. Succession to the Hanoverian throne was regulated by semi-Salic law (agnatic-cognatic), which gave priority to all male lines before female...
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  • referred to as application of the Salic law. Another variation on agnatic primogeniture was the so-called semi-Salic law, or "agnatic-cognatic primogeniture"...
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