from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
SALIQUE LAW. The name of a code of laws so called from the Salians, a people
of Germany, who settled in Gaul under their king Phararaond.
2. 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.