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See also:JUS PRIMAE NOCTIS, or See also:DROIT DU SEIGNEUR
, a See also:custom alleged to have existed in See also:medieval See also:Europe, giving the overlord a right to the virginity of his vassals' daughters on their See also:wedding-See also:night
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For the existence of the custom in a legalized See also:form there is no trustworthy See also:evidence
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That some such abuse of See also:power may have been occasionally exercised by brutal nobles in the lawless days of the See also:early See also:middle ages is only too likely, but the See also:jus, it seems, is a myth, invented no earlier than the 16th or 17th See also:century
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There appears to have been an entirely religious custom established by the See also:council of See also:Carthage in 398, whereby the See also: |
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