Salic

In Germany “left-handed” or “morganatic” marriages were allowed by the Salic law between nobles and women of lower rank.

The Vandals had taken possession of it in 407; then it had become the principal seat of the Salic Franks.

Salic land, said Montesquieu, was the land belonging to the house.

I say, that unluckily there exists in France a law they call the Salic law, which destroys all our pretensions.