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Lines 1.66-1.96
Roman Law and Society, Law of the Twelve Tables 1.66-96
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3. Usucapio of movable things requires one years possession for its completion; but usucapio of an estate and buildings, two years.
4. Any woman who did not wish to be subjected in this manner to the hand (in manum )of her husband should be absent for 3 nights in succession every year, and so interrupt the usucapio of each year.
5. If parties lay on hands together in law . . .
7-9. A person shall not dislodge from its framework a beam fixed in buildings or vineyards . . . double amount of damage against the person found guilty of fixing such beam.
Table VII: Rights Concerning Land
1. . . . ownership within a 5-foot strip shall not be acquired by long usage (usus capionem ).
5. If parties disagree . . . boundaries shall be marked by . . . three arbitrators.
6. The width of a road . . . 8 feet where it runs straight ahead, 16 round a bend . . .
7. Persons shall mend the roadway. If they keep it not laid with stones, [the holder of the servitude] may drive beasts where he shall wish.
8. If rainwater does damage . . . must be restrained according to an arbitrators order.
91. Branches of a tree may be lopped off all round to a height of more than 15 feet . . .
9b. Should a tree on a neighbor's farm be bent crooked by the wind and lean over your farm, you may take legal action for removal of that tree.
10. A man might gather up fruit that was falling down onto another man's farm.
Table VIII: Torts or Delicts
1a. If any person had sung or composed against another person a song such as was causing slander or insult to another . . . he should be clubbed to death.
1b. Person who shall have enchanted by singing an evil spell . . .