Twelve Tables

Lastly, the most typical and important utterance of the Tables is to be found in the injunction that ‘the last command of the People should be final.

The Laws of the Twelve Tables seem to have divided Thefts into Manifest and Non-Manifest, and to have allotted extraordinarily different penalties to the offence according as it fell under one head or the other.

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;

and this, surely, is that \"lament\" which the Twelve Tables forbade to be employed at funerals.

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

The law of the twelve tables indeed required, that the person who took a thief either in the day time, or in the night, should make a noise that, if possible, the magistrates or neighbours might assemble to assist him and give evidence.

that the writings of Lycurgus, of Solon, our Twelve Tables are not laws, nor even is it a city or a state unless it be of the wise?

Our Twelve Tables, on the contrary, though they had made very few things punishable by death, thought this too should be made so among them:

If the Twelve Tables gave an action for damage to ‘trees’ it would not do to say ‘vines’;

and a like state of things appears in the fragments of the Twelve Tables Whatever agreements are outside the specified forms of obligation and modes of proof are incapable of enforcement;