Select Law from the Twelve Tables

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Assignment 2 Roots: Roman Law

To show some of the content of the Twelve Tables, I’ve made my own table, with the subject of each tablet, a law contained on the tablet that we still use today, and another law that has fallen out of use to show examples of how our laws have changed over time and what laws still remain from the Romans and their civil law tradition

Subject Antecedents to US laws 1 Proceedings If the plaintiff summons the If both parties are present sunset shall Preliminary to defendant to court the defendant be the time limit of the proceedings. Trial shall go. 2 Trial If a serious sickness is an Whoever needs evidence shall go impediment for the judex or for every third day to shout before the the arbiter or for either litigant, doorway on that account the day of trial shall be postponed. 3 Execution of [After time limit for payment of Unless the debtor discharges the debt Judgment debt has expired] The creditor .. the creditor shall … bind him either shall hale the debtor into court. with a thong or with fetters of not less than fifteen pounds in weight, 4 Paternal Power A notably deformed child shall If a father thrice surrenders a son for be killed immediately. (just sale the son shall be free from the kidding) father. 5 Inheritance According as a person has made Women, even though they are of full and bequest regarding his personal age, because of their levity of mind Guardianship property or the guardianship of shall be under guardianship ... except his estate so shall be the law. vestal virgins, who … shall be free from guardianship ... 6 Ownership / When a person makes bond and One shall not take from framework Possession conveyance, according as he timber fixed in buildings specified … so shall be the law. 7 Real Property Articles sold ... and delivered It shall be lawful to gather fruit shall not be acquired by the falling upon another's farm. purchaser, unless he pays the price to the seller or in some other way satisfies the seller 8 Torts or Guild members shall have the Whoever is convicted of speaking Delicts power ... to make for themselves false witness shall be flung from the Beatty

any rule that they may wish Tarpeian Rock. provided that they impair no part of the public law. 9 Public Law For anyone whomsoever to be A judex or an arbiter legally put to death without a trial and appointed who has been convicted of unconvicted ... is forbidden. receiving money for declaring a decision shall be punished capitally. 10 Sacred Law Women shall not tear their cheeks or shall not make a sorrowful outcry on account of a funeral. 11 Supplementary regulations concerning days There shall not be intermarriage Laws permissible for official legal between plebeians and patricians action 12 Supplementary Whatever the people ordain last There shall be introduced a seizure of Laws shall be legally valid. pledge against a person who buys an animal for sacrifice and does not pay