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Lines 1.98-1.116
Roman Law and Society, The Law of the Twelve Tables 1.98-116
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2. If a person has maimed another's limb, let there be retaliation in kind (talio )unless he makes agreement for composition with him.
3. If he has broken or bruised a freemen's bone with his hand or a club, he shall undergo a penalty of 300 pieces; if a slave's, 150.
4. If he has done simple harm, the penalty shall be 25 pieces.
6. If a four-footed animal shall be said to have caused loss, a legal action shall be had either for the surrender of the thing which damaged or for assessment of the damage.
8a. A person who has enchanted crops away . . .
8b. . . . or decoy not another's grain.
9. For pasturing on, or cutting secretly by night, anothers crops acquired by tillage, an adult shall be hanged (suspensum )and put to death as a sacrifice to Ceres; and, in the case of a person under the age of puberty, either he shall be scourged or shall, for the harm done, make composition by paying double damages.
10. Any person who destroys by burning any building or heap of grain deposited alongside a house shall be bound, scourged, and put to death by burning at the stake provided that he has committed the said misdeed with malice aforethought; but if he shall have committed it by accident, that is, by negligence, it is ordained that he repair the damage or, if he be too poor to be competent for such punishment, he shall receive a lighter punishment.
11. Any person who has cut down another persons trees with harmful intent shall pay 25 pieces for every tree.
12. If the theft has been done by night, if the owner kills the thief, the thief shall be held to be lawfully killed.