Search The Library's Lexicon The Common Law of France. The name
of a code of laws so called from the Salians, a people of
Germany, who settled in Gaul under their king Phararaond. The
most remarkable law of this code is that which regards
succession. De terra vero salica nulla portio haereditatis
transit in mulierem, sed hoc viriles sextus acquirit, hoc est
filii in ipsa haereditate succedunt; no part of the salique land
passes to females, but the males alone are capable of taking,
that is the sons succeed to the inheritance. This rule has ever
excluded females from the throne of France.