The Two Great Republics: Rome and the United StatesLewis, James
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The Two Great Republics: Rome and the United States
Lewis, James
Rome -- Politics and government -- 510-30 B.C.; United States -- Politics and government
3. What has been appointed in regard to the property or
tutelage shall be binding in law.
4. If a man die intestate, having no natural heirs, his
property shall pass to the nearest agnate.
5. If there be no agnate, the gentiles shall succeed.
7. ... if one be hopelessly insane, his agnates and gentiles
shall have authority over him and his property ... in case
there be none to take charge....
8. ... from that estate ... into that estate.
TABLE VI
OWNERSHIP AND POSSESSION
1. Whenever a party shall negotiate a nexum or transfer by
mancipatio, according to the formal statement so let the law
be.
5. Whoever in presence of the magistrates shall join issue
by manuum consertio....
7. A beam built into a house or vine trellis shall not be
removed.
9. When the vines have been pruned, until the grapes are
removed....
TABLE VII
LAW CONCERNING REAL PROPERTY
5. If parties get into dispute about boundaries....
7. They shall pave the way. If they do not pave the way with
stones a man may drive where he pleases.
8. If water from rain gutters cause damage....
TABLE VIII
ON TORTS
1. Whoever shall chant a magic spell....
2. If a man maim another, and does not compromise with him,
there shall be retaliation in kind.
3. If with the fist or club a man break a bone of a freeman,
the penalty shall be three hundred asses; if of a slave, one
hundred and fifty asses.
4. If he does any injury to another, twenty-five asses; if
he sing a satirical song let him be beaten.
5. ... if he shall have inflicted a loss ... he shall make
it good.
6. Whoever shall blight the crops of another by incantation
... nor shalt thou win over to thyself another's grain....
12. If a thief be caught stealing by night and he be slain,
the homicide shall be lawful.
13. If in the daytime the thief defend himself with a
weapon, one may kill him.
15. ... with a leather girdle about his naked body, and a
platter in his hand....
16. If a man contend at law about a theft not detected in
the act....
21. If a patron cheat his client, he shall become infamous.
22. He who has been summoned as a witness or acts as
libripens, and shall refuse to give his testimony, shall be
accounted infamous, and shall be incapable of acting
subsequently as witness.
24. If a weapon slip from a man's hand without his intention
of hurling it....
TABLE IX
(No fragments of this table are extant.)
TABLE X
SACRED LAW
1. They shall not inter or burn a dead man within the city.
2. ... more than this a man shall not do ... ; a man shall
not smooth the wood for the funeral pyre with an ax.
4. Women shall not lacerate their faces, nor indulge in
immoderate wailing for the dead.
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