# Law of the Twelve Tables 1.66-96

Roman Law and Society, Law of the Twelve Tables, Lines 1.66-1.96. Latin.

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3. Usucapio of movable things requires one year’s 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 arbitrator’s 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 . . .

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