The Twelve Tables
Roman law (Decemviri)
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Institutes of Roman Law Gaius 2 citations · 5 passages
The Twelve Tables' rule on tignum junctum is invoked as the source of a specific suspension of action.
By the ordinance de tigno injuncto in the Twelve Tables the right of the co-owner of building materials to sue for them was suspended so long as they formed part of a building, Inst.
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Tusculan Disputations Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 citation
The Twelve Tables are named directly as the legal source backing the rule against lamenting at funerals.
and this, surely, is that \"lament\" which the Twelve Tables forbade to be employed at funerals.
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The Genius of the Common Law Sir Frederick Pollock 1 neutral 1 citation
The Twelve Tables are named directly and used as a concrete legal-historical example of verbal formalism.
If the Twelve Tables gave an action for damage to ‘trees’ it would not do to say ‘vines’;
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