The Twelve Tables All the News Romans Need to Know 451 B.C. Rome The Writing of the Twelve Tables By Bryan Davidson The plebeians of Rome about debt. The fourth table decided that they wanted a contained laws about the written law code, because they rights of fathers over the didn’t know what the laws family. The fifth table were. They never understood contained laws about legal the laws because the patrician guardianship and inheritance. officials would interpret the The sixth table contained laws law to suit themselves. The about acquisition and plebeians fought hard for this possession. The seventh table to happen. They even went on contained laws about land strike. rights. The eighth table Then, in 451 B.C. a contained laws about injuries. group of ten officials carved The ninth table contained Rome’s laws onto tablets. public laws. The tenth table When they finished, there contained sacred laws. The were twelve tablets that they eleventh table contained hung in the Forum. The supplement laws. The twelfth Twelve Tables created the table contained supplement idea that all free citizens were laws. The Twelve Tables protected by the law. They contained every law that also were the basis of the people needed to know. Roman legal system. The first table contained laws about the procedure for courts and trials. The second table was a continuation of the laws on the first table. The third table contained laws Below is a picture of the rewritten Twelve Tables made after the originals were destroyed Questions: 1) How many people wrote the Twelve Tables? 2) What laws were on the sixth table? .