Latin

Lines 1.136-1.173

Roman Law and Society, The Law of the Twelve Tables 1.136-173

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If a missile has sped from the hand, and the holder has not aimed it . . .
. . . poison . . .
No person shall hold meetings by night in the city.
Table IX: Public Law 
1-2. Laws of personal exception (privilegia )must not be proposed; cases in which the penalty affects the caput or person of a citizen must not be decided except through the greatest assembly (maximum comitiatum )and through those whom the [censors] have placed upon the register of citizens.
. . . capital punishment on a judge or arbiter legally appointed who had been found guilty of receiving a bribe for giving a decision.
. . . investigators of murder (quaestores parricidii ).
He who shall have roused up a public enemy or handed over a citizen to a public enemy must suffer capital punishment.
Putting to death . . . of any man, whosoever he might be, unconvicted is forbidden.
Table X: Sacred Law 
A dead man shall not be buried or burned within the city.
One must not do more than this; one must not smooth the pyre with an axe . . .
. . . three veils, one small purple tunic, and 10 flute-players.
A woman must not tear her cheeks or hold a chorus of Alas! on account of a funeral.
When a man is dead, one must not gather bones whereby to make an funeral after.
Anointing by slaves is abolished and every kind of drinking-bout. Let there be no costly sprinkling, . . . no long garlands, . . . no incense-boxes.
8-9. A person must not add gold (to the funeral pyre). But him whose teeth shall have been fastened together with gold, if a person shall bury or burn him along with that gold, it shall be with impunity.
Table XI: Supplementary Laws 
[Marriages] should not take place between plebeians and patricians.

Latin

Lines 1.136-1.173

Roman Law and Society, The Law of the Twelve Tables 1.136-173

Not analysed yet

If a missile has sped from the hand, and the holder has not aimed it . . .
. . . poison . . .
No person shall hold meetings by night in the city.
Table IX: Public Law 
1-2. Laws of personal exception (privilegia )must not be proposed; cases in which the penalty affects the caput or person of a citizen must not be decided except through the greatest assembly (maximum comitiatum )and through those whom the [censors] have placed upon the register of citizens.
. . . capital punishment on a judge or arbiter legally appointed who had been found guilty of receiving a bribe for giving a decision.
. . . investigators of murder (quaestores parricidii ).
He who shall have roused up a public enemy or handed over a citizen to a public enemy must suffer capital punishment.
Putting to death . . . of any man, whosoever he might be, unconvicted is forbidden.
Table X: Sacred Law 
A dead man shall not be buried or burned within the city.
One must not do more than this; one must not smooth the pyre with an axe . . .
. . . three veils, one small purple tunic, and 10 flute-players.
A woman must not tear her cheeks or hold a chorus of Alas! on account of a funeral.
When a man is dead, one must not gather bones whereby to make an funeral after.
Anointing by slaves is abolished and every kind of drinking-bout. Let there be no costly sprinkling, . . . no long garlands, . . . no incense-boxes.
8-9. A person must not add gold (to the funeral pyre). But him whose teeth shall have been fastened together with gold, if a person shall bury or burn him along with that gold, it shall be with impunity.
Table XI: Supplementary Laws 
[Marriages] should not take place between plebeians and patricians.