Twelve Tables

1. Institutes of Roman Law Gaius 27 authority · 1 neutral 28 citations · 85 passages

   ch. 13 · ch. 17 · ch. 26 3 passages anchored here · de patria potestate. (2) · de manv. (1) · de manv. (2) 2 passages anchored here · de mancipio. (1) · de mancipio. (2)

   and 18 more chapters

   de capitis minvtione. (2) · ch. 61 · ch. 63 · de cessicia tvtela. (2) · ch. 67 · de mvliervm tvtela. (2) · ch. 73 · ch. 79 3 passages anchored here · ch. 81 10 passages anchored here · ch. 82 · ch. 83 2 passages anchored here · ch. 87 2 passages anchored here · ch. 95 · ch. 113 · ch. 116 11 passages anchored here · consensv obligationes. (2) 17 passages anchored here · ch. 119 3 passages anchored here · commentarivs qvartvs 16 passages anchored here

   The Twelve Tables is treated as the earliest source of the law of nexum and contract.

   In the Twelve Tables the law of contract is still in a rudimentary stage.

2. Ancient Law Henry Sumner Maine 8 authority 8 citations · 15 passages

   ch. 5 3 passages anchored here · chapter ii.: legal fictions. · ch. 9 · ch. 10 4 passages anchored here · ch. 11 2 passages anchored here · ch. 13 · ch. 14 3 passages anchored here

   The Twelve Tables are named as the code whose authority the jurisconsults formally respected.

   ” The form of these Responses varied a good deal at different periods of the Roman jurisprudence, but throughout its whole course they consisted of explanatory glosses on authoritative written documents, and at first they were exclusively collections of opinions interpretative of the Twelve Tables.

3. Dissertations on Early Law and Custom Henry Sumner Maine 3 authority · 2 neutral 5 citations · 8 passages

   ch. 2 2 passages anchored here · ch. 4 · ch. 5 2 passages anchored here · ch. 11 · ch. 12 2 passages anchored here

   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:

4. Lectures on the Early History of Institutions Henry Sumner Maine 2 authority · 1 neutral 3 citations · 4 passages

   ch. 2 · ch. 10 2 passages anchored here · ch. 12

   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.

5. On the Commonwealth Cicero, Marcus Tullius 2 authority 2 citations

   book 2 · book 4

   Explicitly named legal code cited as authority for the appeal right

   That appeal lay even from the kings the pontifical books declare, our augural ones too signify, and likewise that it is permitted to appeal from every judgment and penalty the Twelve Tables indicate in several laws;

6. Tusculan Disputations Cicero, Marcus Tullius 2 authority 2 citations

   book 2 · book 4

   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.

7. The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 2 authority 2 citations · 4 passages

   ch. 10 · ch. 11 3 passages anchored here

   Named legal text cited as corroborating authority.

   The passage of the twelve tables is well known, undoubtedly taken from the old Athenian Law, “If a thief commit a robbery in the night, and a man kill him, he is killed lawfully.

8. The Law of Torts Sir Frederick Pollock 2 neutral 2 citations

   ch. 4 · ch. 5

   The Twelve Tables are named directly and reported as the source recognizing primitive retaliation, without being endorsed or refuted, only identified as historical background.

   the compensation of the civilized law stands instead of a primitive retaliation which was still recognized by the law of the Twelve Tables.

9. The Genius of the Common Law Sir Frederick Pollock 1 neutral 1 citation

   ii.: the giants and the gods

   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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