5. For a loyal person and for a person restored to allegiance there shall be the same right (_ius_) of bond (_nexum_) and of conveyance (_mancipium_) with the Roman people.[25] 6. Against an alien (_hostis_) title of ownership (_auctoritas_) shall be [valid] forever.[26] 7. A prescriptive title (_usucapio_) of movable things is completed by one year's [possession], but [a prescriptive title] of an estate and of buildings [is completed] by two years' [possession]. 8. A person [who had been a slave and] who has been declared to be a free man [in a will on some condition], if he shall have given 10,000 [_asses_] to the heir, although he (the slave) has been alienated by the heir, by giving the money to the purchaser shall enter into his freedom. 9. If any woman [not married by _confarreatio_[27] or by _co-emptio_[28]] be unwilling to be subjected in this manner [by _usus_ (possession)] to the hand of her husband (_in manum mariti_), she shall be absent [from his house] for three successive nights in every year and by this means shall interrupt the _usus_ (possession) of each year.[29] 10. If the (the parties) join [their] hands [on the disputed property when pleading] in court (_in iure_), [the actual possessor shall retain provisional possession; but, when it is a case of personal freedom, the magistrate] shall grant the right of claim (_vindicia_) [provisionally to the party] asserting [the person's] freedom. 11. [If he find that another has used his timber (_tignum_)[30] in building a house or in supporting vines,] a person shall not dislodge from the framework the timber fixed in buildings in vineyard; [but he shall have the right of action] for double [damages] against him who has been convicted of fixing [such timber]. 12. Whenever [the vines] have been pruned, until fruit shall have been gathered [therefrom, the owner shall not recover the timber]. TABLE VII. REAL PROPERTY 1. [Ownership] within [a strip of] five feet [along a boundary] shall not be acquired by long usage (_usucapio_).[31] 2. The way round [each outer wall of a building] shall be two and one-half feet. 3. If they (the parties) disagree, boundaries shall be marked by three arbitrators (_arbiter_).[32] 4. [Regulations relating to] inclosures, inherited plots, cottages.[33] 5. The width of a road [extends to] eight feet on a straight [stretch], [but it extends to] sixteen [feet] on a bend. 6. [Neighboring] persons shall mend the roadway. If they keep it not laid with stones, one shall drive [one's] beast vehicles [across the land] where one shall wish. 7. If rain-water do damage [through artificial diversion from its natural channels, the offending owner] shall be restrained by an arbitrator (_arbiter_). 8. If a water-course directed through a public place shall do damage to a private person, to the [same] private person shall be [the right to bring] an action (_actio_), that damage shall be repaired for the owner.