1. Women shall remain under guardianship (_tutela_), even though they shall become of full age (_perfecta aetas_)[17] ... the Vestal Virgins are excepted [and] shall be free [from control]. 2. The mancipable (conveyable or movable) possessions of a woman who is under tutelage of [her] agnates[18] shall not be acquired rightfully by usucapion (long usage or long possession), save if these (possessions) by herself shall have been delivered with the sanction of [her] guardian (_tutor_).[19] 3. According as a person shall have ordered regarding his property or the guardianship (_tutela_) of his estate, so shall be the law (_ita ius esto_). 4. If a person die intestate (_intestatus_) and have no self-successor (_suus heres_), the [deceased's] nearest male agnate shall have possession of the estate. 5. If there be no male agnate, the [deceased's] clansmen[20] shall have possession of the estate. 6. To persons[21] for whom a guardian (_tutor_) shall not have been appointed by will (_testamentum_), to them [their] agnates shall be guardians. 7. If a person be insane (_furiosus_), if there be not a guardian (_custos_) for him, rightful authority over his person and over his property shall belong to [his] agnates and [in default of these] to [his] clansmen. If a person be a spendthrift (_prodigus_), he shall be prohibited from [administering his own] goods and he shall be under the guardianship (_curatio_) of [his] agnates. 8. If a freedman (_libertus_) shall have died intestate without self-successor, [his] patron (_patronus_) shall take the inheritance of a Roman citizen-freedman ... from said household into said household. 9. Items which are in the category of debts [due to or incurred by a deceased person] shall be divided [among his consuccessors] by mere operation of law (_ipso iure_) [in proportion] to [their] portions of the inheritance.[22] 10. Apportionment of an estate (_actio familiae erciscundae_) [occurs], when coheirs (_coheres_) wish to withdraw from common [and equal] participation [in the inheritance].[23] TABLE VI. OWNERSHIP AND POSSESSION 1. When a person shall make bond (_nexum_) and conveyance (_mancipium_), according as he has specified with [his] tongue, so shall be the law (_ita ius esto_). 2. Both conveyance (_mancipatio_) and surrender in court (_in iure cessio_) are confirmed. 3. Articles which have been sold and delivered are not acquired by the buyer otherwise than if he has paid the price to the seller or has satisfied him in some other way, that is, by providing a guarantor (_expromissor_) or a security (_pignus_). 4. It shall be sufficient to make good those [faults] which have been named by [one's] tongue, [while] for those [flaws] which he (the vendor) has denied expressly [, when asked about these,] he (the vendor) shall undergo a penalty of double [damages].[24]