jus primæ noctis

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• Jus primæ noctis — Fyrstes ret til at sove hos en livegen kvinde på hendes bryllupsnat …   Danske encyklopædi

• Droit du seigneur — Vasily Polenov: Le droit du Seigneur (1874). A Victorian artist s painting of an old man bringing his young daughters to their feudal lord. Droit du seigneur (/ …   Wikipedia

• Family — • In the classical Roman period the familia rarely included the parents or the children. Its English derivative was frequently used in former times to describe all the persons of the domestic circle, parents, children, and servants. Present usage …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Droit de seigneur — (pronounced|dʀwa d(ə) sɛɲœʀ), French for the lord s right , is a term now popularly used to describe an alleged legal right allowing the lord of an estate to take the virginity of the estate s virgins. It is also spelled droit du seigneur (IPA|… …   Wikipedia