TWELVE TABLES OF ROMAN LAW
1) All contracts even those spoken, are legal (binding). - ANS-Table VI (6): Acquisition and
Possession
1) Anyone summoned (court order)to go in front of the magistrate (judge) must go. Can be
taken by force.
2) If he runs away, the person who summoned him to court can go get him
3) If old or ill, the person who summoned him will provide a team to carry him there. -
ANS-TABLE I (1) RULES FOR TRIALS
1) deformed children may be killed
2)A fathers can sell his son three times, after which the son is free from his father.
3) A mans will regarding his money and estate is legal.
4) If no will, his oldest son gets the property
5) if no son, the family divides it up
6)A child born after 10 months of his fathers death has NO right to an inheritance. (Basically
means it is not his child since humans have a 9 month gestation) - ANS-Table IV (4): Rights of
the head of the Family
1) Females are under the guardianship of their father, even when they turn 18. - ANS-Table V
(5): Guardianship and Succession
1) If a slave commits a crime or theft or has done damage with his master's knowledge, it is still
in the slaves name.
2) Whatever the Senate ( the people) has passed into law (ordained) it is legal (Legally binding,
remember to bind is to be held accountable to in regards to laws) - ANS-Table XII (12):
Supplemental Laws
1) If you hurt someone's limb, you must compensate them or face retaliation
2) If you break someone's bone by hand or with a weapon, the penalty is 300 coins
3) If you break the bone of a slave, the penalty is 150 coins
4) If you insult someone the penalty is 25 coins.
1) if someone is killed while committing a theft, he is considered rightly slain.
1) If someone tries to deceived someone, they should be cursed or strongly disliked. -
ANS-Table VIII (8): Torts (a wrongful act or infringement on a right) and Derelicts
1) In a civil trial (no crime committed), where 1000 bronze pieces of more are involved, both
parties in dispute will leave a deposit of 500 bronze pieces.
1) All contracts even those spoken, are legal (binding). - ANS-Table VI (6): Acquisition and
Possession
1) Anyone summoned (court order)to go in front of the magistrate (judge) must go. Can be
taken by force.
2) If he runs away, the person who summoned him to court can go get him
3) If old or ill, the person who summoned him will provide a team to carry him there. -
ANS-TABLE I (1) RULES FOR TRIALS
1) deformed children may be killed
2)A fathers can sell his son three times, after which the son is free from his father.
3) A mans will regarding his money and estate is legal.
4) If no will, his oldest son gets the property
5) if no son, the family divides it up
6)A child born after 10 months of his fathers death has NO right to an inheritance. (Basically
means it is not his child since humans have a 9 month gestation) - ANS-Table IV (4): Rights of
the head of the Family
1) Females are under the guardianship of their father, even when they turn 18. - ANS-Table V
(5): Guardianship and Succession
1) If a slave commits a crime or theft or has done damage with his master's knowledge, it is still
in the slaves name.
2) Whatever the Senate ( the people) has passed into law (ordained) it is legal (Legally binding,
remember to bind is to be held accountable to in regards to laws) - ANS-Table XII (12):
Supplemental Laws
1) If you hurt someone's limb, you must compensate them or face retaliation
2) If you break someone's bone by hand or with a weapon, the penalty is 300 coins
3) If you break the bone of a slave, the penalty is 150 coins
4) If you insult someone the penalty is 25 coins.
1) if someone is killed while committing a theft, he is considered rightly slain.
1) If someone tries to deceived someone, they should be cursed or strongly disliked. -
ANS-Table VIII (8): Torts (a wrongful act or infringement on a right) and Derelicts
1) In a civil trial (no crime committed), where 1000 bronze pieces of more are involved, both
parties in dispute will leave a deposit of 500 bronze pieces.
