1. The legal action of solemn deposit (_sacramenti actio_) [demands that each litigant shall wager either 500 _asses_ or 50 _asses_]: 500 _asses_ for solemn deposit (_sacramentum_) when the subject of the dispute [is valued at] 1,000 _asses_ or more, 50 _asses_ when [estimated at] less [than 1,000 _asses_]. [But] if the controversy concerns the liberty of a human being [, however valuable may be the person], the solemn deposit (_sacramentum_) [shall be] 50 _asses_. 2. A dangerous disease or a day appointed [for the hearing of a case] with an alien [, when the latter is a party] ... If any of these (circumstances) be an impediment for judge (_index_)[8] or arbitrator (_arbiter_)[9] or party (_reus_),[10] on this account the day of trial shall be deferred. 3. Whoever shall have need of evidence, he shall go on every third day[11] to cry[12] before the doorway [of the witness's house]. TABLE III. DEBT 1. Of debt acknowledged and for matters judged in court (_in iure_) thirty days shall be allowed by law [for payment or for satisfaction].[13] 2. After that [elapse of thirty days without payment] hand shall be laid on (_manus iniectio_) [the debtor]. He shall be brought into court (_in ius_). 3. Unless he (the debtor) discharge the debt or unless some one appear in court (_in iure_) to guarantee payment for him, he (the creditor) shall take [the debtor] with him. He shall bind [him] either with thong or with fetters, of which the weight shall be not less than fifteen pounds or shall be more, if he (the creditor) choose. 4. If he (the debtor) choose, he shall live on his own [means]. If he live not on his own [means], [the creditor,] who shall hold him in bonds, shall give [him] a pound of bread daily; if he (the creditor) shall so desire, he shall give [him] more. 5. Unless they (the debtors) make a compromise, they (the debtors) shall be held in bonds for sixty days. During those days they shall be brought to [the magistrate] into the _comitium_ (meeting-place) on three successive market-days and the amount for which they have been judged liable shall be declared publicly. Moreover on the third market-day they (the debtors) shall suffer capital punishment (_capite poenae_) or shall be delivered for sale beyond the Tiber [River]. 6. On the third market-day they (the creditors) shall cut pieces.[14] If they shall have cut more or less [than their shares], it shall be with impunity (_s[in]e fraude_). TABLE IV. PATERNAL POWER 1. A dreadfully deformed child shall be killed quickly. 2. If a father thrice surrender a son for sale, the son shall be free from the father.[15] 3. [To repudiate his wife her husband] shall order her to mind her own affairs, shall take [her] keys [, shall expel her]. 4. Into a legal inheritance he who has been in the womb (_in utero_) is admitted [, if he shall have been born].[16] TABLE V. INHERITANCE AND GUARDIANSHIP