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Roman Law and Society, The Law of the Twelve Tables 1.175-98
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2. . . . intercalating into the calendar.
3. . . . days deemed favorable for official legal business . . .
Table XII: Supplementary Laws
1. . . . levying of distress (pignoris capio )against a person who had bought an animal for sacrifice and was a defaulter by nonpayment; likewise against a person who was a defaulter by nonpayment of the fee for a yoke-beat which any one had hired out for the purpose of raising therefrom money to spend on a sacred banquet . . .
2. If a slave shall have committed theft or done damage . . . Arising from delicts committed by children and slaves of a household . . actions for damages are appointed whereby the father or master shall be allowed either to undergo an assessment of damage or hand over the delinquent ot punishment . . .
3. If a person has taken a thing by false claim, if he should wish . . . official must grant three arbitrators; by their arbitration . . . defendant must compound for the loss caused by paying double damages from enjoyment of the article.
4. [A person is prohibited] from dedicating for consecrated use anything about which there is a controversy; otherwise we suffer a penalty of double the amount involved . . .
5. Whatever the people had last ordained should be held as binding by law.
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6a. . . . fine, fetters, flogging, retaliation in kind (talio ),civil disgrace, banishment, death, slavery . . .
(from E. H. Warmington, Remains of Old Latin III ,pp. 424-515 )
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