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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