Primogeniture
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Primogeniture is the right, by law or custom, of the firstborn legitimate child to inherit all or most of their parent's estate, as well as succeed their parent as the ruler of a state.
Esau Sells His Birthright for Pottage of Lentils, a 1728 engraving by Gerard Hoet
Salic law
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The Salic law, also called the Salian law, was a Frankish civil law code compiled around 500 AD by Clovis, the first Frankish king. The name may refer to the Salii, or "Salian Franks", but this is deb
Primogeniture
…total exclusion of females and descendants through females. This exclusion of females from dynastic succession is also referred to as application of the Salic law. Another variation on agnatic primogeniture is the so-called semi-Salic law, or "agnatic-cognatic primogeniture", which allows women to succeed only…
Record of a judgement by Childebert III, who reigned from 694 to 711 AD
Start of the Salic law in the Wandalgarius Codex of 793/4