See also:

• JUS

JUS PRIMAE NOCTIS, or See also:

• DROIT (Fr. for " right," from Lat. directus, straight)

DROIT DU SEIGNEUR  , a See also:

• CUSTOM (from O. Fr. costume, costume or coustume; Low Lat. costuma, a shortened form of consuetudo)

custom alleged to have existed in See also:

• MEDIEVAL

medieval See also:

• EUROPE

Europe, giving the overlord a right to the virginity of his vassals' daughters on their See also:

• WEDDING

wedding-See also:

• NIGHT

night . For the existence of the custom in a legalized See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form there is no trustworthy See also:

• EVIDENCE (Lat. evidentia, evideri, to appear clearly)

evidence . That some such abuse of See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power may have been occasionally exercised by brutal nobles in the lawless days of the See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• MIDDLE

middle ages is only too likely, but the See also:

• JUS

jus, it seems, is a myth, invented no earlier than the 16th or 17th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . There appears to have been an entirely religious custom established by the See also:

• COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

council of See also:

• CARTHAGE
• CARTHAGE (Phoenician Kart-hadshat, " New City "; Gr. Kapxn5c; v, Lat. Carthago or Carchedon)
• CARTHAGE, SYNODS OF

Carthage in 398, whereby the See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

Church required from the faithful continence on the wedding-night, and this may havebeen, and there is evidence that it was, known as See also:

• DROIT (Fr. for " right," from Lat. directus, straight)

Droit du Seigneur, or " See also:

• GOD

God's right." Later theclerical admonition was extended to the first three days of See also:

• MARRIAGE

marriage . This religious abstention, added to the undoubted fact that the feudal See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

lord extorted fines on the marriages of his vassals and their See also:

• CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children, doubtless gave rise to the belief that the jus was once an established custom . The whole subject has been exhaustively treated by See also:

• LOUIS
• LOUIS (804–876)
• LOUIS (893–911)
• LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
• LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian

Louis See also:

• VEUILLOT, LOUIS (1813–1883)

Veuillot in Le Droit du seigneur au moyen See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age (1854) .