![]() ![]() concerning that which is claimed in accordance with a stipulation. But if the controversy is about the freedom of a person, although the person may be very valuable, yet the case shall be argued by a solemn deposit of 50 asses.ġb. It shall be argued by solemn deposit with 500 asses, when the property is valued at 1,000 asses or more, but with 50 asses, when the property is valued at less than 1,000 asses. The penal sum in an action by solemn deposit shall be either 500 asses or 50 asses. sureties subsureties with platter and loincloth. If both parties are present sunset shall be the time limit of the proceedings.ġ0. If one of the parties does not appear the magistrate shall adjudge the case, after noon, in favor of the one present.ĩ. Both parties being present shall plead the case throughout together.Ĩ. If they agree not on terms the parties shall state their case before the assembly in the meeting place or before the magistrate in the market place before noon. ![]() When the parties agree on the matter the magistrate shall announce it.ħ. There shall be the same right of bond and of conveyance with the Roman people for a steadfast person and for a person restored to allegiance.Ħ. ![]() For a freeholder' a freeholder shall be surety for a proletary anyone who wishes shall be surety.ĥ. If he a does not wish he shall not spread a carriage with cushions.Ĥ. If sickness or age is an impediment he who summons the defendant to court shall grant him a vehicle. If the defendant attempts evasion or takes flight the plaintiff shall lay hand on him.ģ. Only then the plaintiff shall seize the defendant.Ģ. If the defendant does not go the plaintiff shall call a witness thereto. If the plaintiff summons the defendant to court the defendant shall go. Tradition tells us that the code was composed by a commission, first of ten and then of twelve men, in 451-450 B.C., was ratifed by the Centuriate Assembly in 449 B.C., was engraved on twelve tablets (whence the title), which were attached to the Rostra before the Curia in the Forum of Rome. ![]()
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