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1. Roman law

   By: Courtney Claiborne
2. Roman Law The earliest history of Roman law is lost forever. Rome existed already as an Etruscan town in the eight century B.C. The first known source of Roman law are the Laws of the Twelve Tables from the mid-fifth century B.C., written in early Latin. After the period of the kings two consuls and the Senate governed Rome. Only few people knew something of the law before the Twelve Tables were erected to provide some legal security. A Piece of one of the Roman Laws.
3. What did the Twelve Table say This is the earliest attempt by the Romans to create a CODE OF LAW; it is also the earliest (surviving) piece of literature coming from the Romans. The meeting place
4. What was the twelve tables written on?
5. Examples of Roman Law What happens when a slave kills his owner? Tacitus in his Annals inform us of a case in which the city prefect by the name of Pedanius Secundus was assassinated by his slave. The reasons are not clear: Pedanius might have backed out of an agreement to free his slave at a certain price or there might have been a sexual rivalry between the two men. Another piece of Roman Law
6. In either case, as ancient custom would have it whenever a slave murdered his owner, all slaves of the same household should be executed. In this case the majority of these slaves were innocent women and children, but the Senate chose to adhere to the custom and in spite of public protests and appeals for mercy, all slaves of the household of Pedanius’s were slaughtered. Four hundred of them. Columns outside the Curia, the meeting place where they met to talk about Roman Law.
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8. A piece of art work on the building of the meeting place Another piece of art work
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