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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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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