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It remained the basis of Frankish law throughout the early medieval period, and influenced future European legal systems. The best-known tenet of the old law is the principle of exclusion of women from inheritance of thrones, fiefs, and other property. The Salic laws were arbitrated by a committee appointed by the Frankish king. Dozens of manuscripts dating from the 6th to 8th centuries and three emendations

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