Salique

They were not always contented with this species of Salique law, which certainly is somewhat inconsistent.

Redgauntlet 2008

The whole public law of Europe had its origin in equivocal expressions, beginning with the Salique law.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

The hostess, a civil, quiet, laborious drudge, came to take his orders for dinner, but declined to make answer on the subject of the horse and guide; for the Salique law, it seems, extended to the stables of the Golden Candlestick.

Waverley 2004

In order that his own progeny might succeed him, he set aside the Salique law (which had been imposed by France) just before his death, in

Washington Irving 2004

The report says the estimated financial loss so far from the still-burning Marieskop and Salique state forests in Mpumalanga is

ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

She said although the department had not been touched by the first wave of fires, "this ended during the second week, and we lost at least one plantation, at Salique".

ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

And although Henry the II was unable to enter into this inheritance during the lifetime of Rodolph, the latter's nephew, the Emperor Conrad the Salique, assumed control of the kingdom which then was incorporated into the German Empire.

The Counts of Gruyère Mrs. Reginald de Koven

Which verses _Philip de Valois_ then possessing the Crowne as next heire male by pretexte of the law _Salique_, and holding our _Edward_ the third, aunswered in these other of as good stuffe.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

Ambition and warlike Genius, imagining himself aggrieved by the _Salique

An Essay on the Antient and Modern State of Ireland Henry Brooke

Nothing was ever framed more wise than the Salique Laws, which in France and many parts of Germany exclude women from reigning, for few of us have that masculine capacity so necessary to conduct with impartiality and justice the affairs of

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various