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The Twelve Tables
EAN 8596547240228
DigiCat, 2022
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
THE TWELVE TABLES[5]
TABLE II. TRIAL
TABLE III. DEBT
TABLE IV. PATERNAL POWER
TABLE V. INHERITANCE AND GUARDIANSHIP
TABLE VI. OWNERSHIP AND POSSESSION
TABLE VII. REAL PROPERTY
TABLE VIII. TORTS OR DELICTS
TABLE IX. PUBLIC LAW
TABLE X. SACRED LAW
TABLE XI. SUPPLEMENTARY LAWS
TABLE XII. SUPPLEMENTARY LAWS
NOTES
INTRODUCTION
Table of Contents
The legal history of Rome begins properly with the Twelve Tables. It is strictly the first and the only Roman code,[1] collecting the earliest known laws of the Roman people and forming the foundation of the whole fabric of Roman Law. Its importance lies in the fact that by its promulgation was substituted for an unwritten usage, of which the knowledge had been confined to some citizens of the community, a public and written body of laws, which were easily accessible to and strictly binding on all citizens of Rome.
Till the close of the republican period (509 B.C.-27 B.C.) the Twelve Tables were regarded as a great legal charter. The historian Livy (59 B.C.-A.D. 17) records: Even in the present immense mass of legislation, where laws are piled on laws, the Twelve Tables still form the fount of all public and private jurisprudence.
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This celebrated code, after its compilation by a commission of ten men (decemviri), who composed in 451 B.C. ten sections and two sections in 450 B.C., and after its ratification by the (then) principal assembly (comitia centuriata) of the State in 449 B.C., was engraved on twelve bronze[3] tablets (whence the name Twelve Tables), which were attached to the Rostra before the Curia in the Forum of Rome. Though this important witness of the national progress probably was destroyed during the Gallic occupation of Rome in 387 B.C., yet copies must have been extant, since Cicero (106 B.C.-43 B.C.) says that in his boyhood schoolboys memorized these laws as a required formula.
[4] However, now no part of the Twelve Tables either in its original form