Twelve Tables of Rome
Roman decemvirs (traditional)
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Dissertations on Early Law and Custom Henry Sumner Maine 1 neutral 1 citation · 2 passages
The Roman law-code is directly named and its content characterized.
Yet the meagre extant fragments of the Twelve Tables of Rome contain rules which are plainly religious or ritualistic:
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Lectures on the Early History of Institutions Henry Sumner Maine 1 neutral 1 citation
Named as the historical precedent structurally paralleling the Irish material.
Let it be remembered that the Roman Law, which, next to the Christian Religion, is the most plentiful source of the rules governing actual conduct throughout Western Europe, is descended from a small body of Aryan customs reduced to writing in the fifth century before Christ, and known as the Twelve Tables of Rome.
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