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Salic law ( or ; ), or, was the major body of Frankish law governing all the Franks of Frankia under the rule of its kings during the Old Frankish Period, approximately equal to the early Middle Ages.

The laws were maintained in written form in the Latin language by a committee empowered by the monarch.

Dozens of manuscripts dated from the 8th century of a putative original recension in the 6th century and three emendations as late as the 9th century have survived.