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The Salic law — The code of the Salian Franks, appearing probably under Clovis
A collection of Frankish customary law mixed with Roman law and royal edicts, put in writing in Clovis’s time. The rule excluding women that is attributed to it was retrieved from oblivion only eight and a half centuries later, to keep a king of England off the French throne. (Editorial synthesis)
The Salic law ended in Frankish law put into writing. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
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