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What the 12 tables said.
What the Justinian Code said.
Marriages should not take place between plebeians and patricians. (As
time went on, this law was changed. When the tables were first
written, this was the law.)
Roman citizens are bound together in lawful matrimony when they are
united according to law, the males having attained the age of puberty,
and the females a marriageable age, whether they are fathers or sons
of a family; but, of the latter, they must first obtain the consent of
their parents, in whose power they are. For both natural reason and
the law require this consent; so much so, indeed, that it ought to
precede the marriage.lt is not every women that can be taken as a
wife: for marriage with certain classes or persons is forbidden.
Marriage
If a child is born with a deformity he shall be killed.
Our children, begotten in lawful marriage, are in our power.
If a father sells his son into slavery three times, the son shall be free of
Marriage, or matrimony, is a binding together of a man and woman to live in
an indivisible union. The power which we have over our children is peculiar to
the citizens of Rome; for no other people have a power over their children,
Power of his father.
such as we have over ours.
Parents
The chid born to you and your wife is in your power. And so is the child bom
to your son of his wife, that is, your grandson or granddaughter; so are your
great-grandchildren, and all your other descendants. But a child born of your
daughter is not in your power, but in the power of its own father.
Those who have incanted an "evil song". (interpreted by Cicero as slander, in
De re publica, Book IV)
An injury is defined as "anything which is done without just cause. An injury in
outrage is inflicted not only with striking of the fist, a stick or a whip, but also
If one has maimed another and does not buy his peace, there be retaliation in
kind.
by harsh and abusive language. Or by writing, publishing or speaking words
that are untrue.
The amount of money awarded to a victim of an injury or an outrage rises and
falls in amount according to the class and character of the victim. For instance,
is the victim holds a government position and is outraged by a person of low
social dass, the victim is entitled to greater compensation than in the injury
was inflicted by another government official.
Someone who breaks another's bone by hand or club must pay 300 sesterces;
Assault for a slave, 150; if he has done simple harm against another, 25.
and
Someone who kills crops with a spell, or another's com.
Battery
If a patron defrauds his dient, let him be outlawed.
A person who has been outraged always has his option between the civil
remedy (only involving a financial penalty) and a criminal indictment (in which
the accused could be sent to jail.) If he prefers civil remedy, the penalty which
is imposed depends on the victim's own estimate of the wrong he has suffereda ws
if he prefers a criminal trial it is the the judge's duty to inflict the harshest
possible punishment on the offender.
If one has been called to witness, or hold the scales, unless he gives his
testimony, let him be dishonored and incapable of further testimony.
If an object flies unarmed from your hand rather than aimed [and causes
injury], you will owe a ram.
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What the 12 tables said.
What the Justinian Code said.
Marriages should not take place between plebeians and patricians. (As
time went on, this law was changed. When the tables were first
written, this was the law.)
Roman citizens are bound together in lawful matrimony when they are
united according to law, the males having attained the age of puberty,
and the females a marriageable age, whether they are fathers or sons
of a family; but, of the latter, they must first obtain the consent of
their parents, in whose power they are. For both natural reason and
the law require this consent; so much so, indeed, that it ought to
precede the marriage.lt is not every women that can be taken as a
wife: for marriage with certain classes or persons is forbidden.
Marriage
If a child is born with a deformity he shall be killed.
Our children, begotten in lawful marriage, are in our power.
If a father sells his son into slavery three times, the son shall be free of
Marriage, or matrimony, is a binding together of a man and woman to live in
an indivisible union. The power which we have over our children is peculiar to
the citizens of Rome; for no other people have a power over their children,
Power of his father.
such as we have over ours.
Parents
The chid born to you and your wife is in your power. And so is the child bom
to your son of his wife, that is, your grandson or granddaughter; so are your
great-grandchildren, and all your other descendants. But a child born of your
daughter is not in your power, but in the power of its own father.
Those who have incanted an "evil song". (interpreted by Cicero as slander, in
De re publica, Book IV)
An injury is defined as "anything which is done without just cause. An injury in
outrage is inflicted not only with striking of the fist, a stick or a whip, but also
If one has maimed another and does not buy his peace, there be retaliation in
kind.
by harsh and abusive language. Or by writing, publishing or speaking words
that are untrue.
The amount of money awarded to a victim of an injury or an outrage rises and
falls in amount according to the class and character of the victim. For instance,
is the victim holds a government position and is outraged by a person of low
social dass, the victim is entitled to greater compensation than in the injury
was inflicted by another government official.
Someone who breaks another's bone by hand or club must pay 300 sesterces;
Assault for a slave, 150; if he has done simple harm against another, 25.
and
Someone who kills crops with a spell, or another's com.
Battery
If a patron defrauds his dient, let him be outlawed.
A person who has been outraged always has his option between the civil
remedy (only involving a financial penalty) and a criminal indictment (in which
the accused could be sent to jail.) If he prefers civil remedy, the penalty which
is imposed depends on the victim's own estimate of the wrong he has suffereda ws
if he prefers a criminal trial it is the the judge's duty to inflict the harshest
possible punishment on the offender.
If one has been called to witness, or hold the scales, unless he gives his
testimony, let him be dishonored and incapable of further testimony.
If an object flies unarmed from your hand rather than aimed [and causes
injury], you will owe a ram.
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