The Twelve Tables by Anonymous
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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. 9. Branches of a tree may be lopped all around to a height of fifteen feet.[34] If a tree on a neighbor's farm [be bent crooked] by the wind [and] lean over one's farm, [one can take] legal action (_agere_) for removal of that [tree or at least of the offending part of it]. 10. [The owner of a tree] may gather its fruit which falls upon another's farm. |
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