The phrase more danico[1] is a Medieval Latin legal expression which may be translated as "according to Danish custom", i.e. under Medieval Scandinavian customary law.
It designates a type of traditional marriage practiced in northern Europe during the Middle Ages.[2]
- ^ The rules of English spelling often result in the proper noun being capitalized, but this is not present in the Latin.
- ^ "The mos Danicus with regard to marriage or concubinage, or rather with regard to some third state between marriage and concubinage, is often mentioned in the Norman history of the time." Freeman, p. 624.