Twelve Tables

1. Institutes of Roman Law Gaius 20 authority · 1 neutral 21 citations · 58 passages

   ch. 13 · ch. 17 · de patria potestate. (2) · de manv. (1) · de capitis minvtione. (2) · ch. 61 · ch. 63 · de cessicia tvtela. (2)

   and 11 more chapters

   ch. 67 · de mvliervm tvtela. (2) · ch. 73 · ch. 79 3 passages anchored here · ch. 87 2 passages anchored here · ch. 95 · ch. 113 · ch. 116 6 passages anchored here · consensv obligationes. (2) 17 passages anchored here · ch. 119 3 passages anchored here · commentarivs qvartvs 14 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 7 authority 7 citations · 12 passages

   ch. 5 3 passages anchored here · chapter ii.: legal fictions. · ch. 9 · ch. 10 3 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 · 1 neutral 4 citations · 5 passages

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

   Named ancient legal code cited as source of Roman succession law.

   This Novel is the last revision of the older Roman law of Succession after death, which was formed by the fusion of the rules of inheritance contained in the venerable Twelve Tables with the Equity of the Prætor’s Edict;

4. 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;

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

   ch. 10 2 passages anchored here · ch. 12

   Invoked as the authoritative early Roman code shaping procedural language and dating institutional change.

   you must call them trees, because the text of the Twelve Tables spoke only of trees.

6. 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.

7. Tusculan Disputations Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 authority 1 citation

   book 4

   The Twelve Tables are explicitly invoked as legal evidence for the custom of composing songs.

   Although the Twelve Tables too declare this — that it was even then the custom to compose a song;

8. The Law of Torts Sir Frederick Pollock 1 neutral 1 citation

   ch. 5

   Cited as a comparative example of early enumerative law alongside Anglo-Saxon and Germanic laws.

   Want of generality in early law.

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