Book-bot.com - read famous books online for free

The Twelve Tables by Anonymous
page 17 of 34 (50%)

TABLE IX. PUBLIC LAW

1. Laws of personal exception (_privilegium_)[55] shall not be
proposed.

2. [Laws] concerning the person (_caput_)[56] of a citizen shall not
be passed except by the greatest assembly (_maximus comitiatus_)[57]
and through those whom they (the consuls)[58] have placed upon the
registers of the citizenry.

3. A judge (_iudex_) or an arbitrator (_arbiter_) legally (_iure_)
appointed, who has been convicted of receiving money for declaring a
decision, shall be punished capitally (_capite_).

4. [Provisions pertaining to] the investigators of murder (_quaestor
parricidii_) [appointed to have charge over capital cases].

5. Whoever shall have incited a public enemy (_hostis_) or whoever
shall have delivered a citizen (_civis_) to a public enemy shall be
punished capitally (_capite_).

6. It is forbidden to put to death ... unconvicted any one whomsoever.




TABLE X. SACRED LAW

1. A dead person shall not be buried or burned in the city.[59]
DigitalOcean Referral Badge