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