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Droit du seigneur

Vasily Polenov: Le droit du Seigneur (1874); artist's interpretation of an old man bringing his young daughters to their feudal lord

Droit du seigneur[a] ('right of the lord'), also known as jus primae noctis[b] ('right of the first night'), sometimes referred to as prima nocta[c], was a supposed legal right in medieval Europe, allowing feudal lords to have sexual relations with any female subject, particularly on her wedding night.

There are many references to the custom throughout the centuries.
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