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?1529 R. Hyrde tr. J. L. Vives Instr. Christen Woman iii. i. sig. q^v The senate was fayne to make statutes and lawes whiche was called the lawes of the twelue tables.

1542 T. Elyot Bibliotheca (at cited word) In the tyme of warre, they whyche were in that maner syck, were dyscharged of their othes. Sextus and other Interpretoures of the twelue Tables, toke it for a vehemente and very great syckenesse.

1556 N. Grimald tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Duties iii f. 133^v By the twelue tables it was sufficientlie prouided: that those thinges should bee perfourmed, which were declared in woorde.

1612 F. Bacon Ess. (rev. ed.) 221 Judges ought above al, to remember the conclusion of the Romaine twelve Tables; Salus populi suprema lex.

1698 J. Houghton Coll. Improvem. Husb. (1727) II. 365 The law of the twelve tables prohibited all but the Emperor and Vestal Nuns to be bury'd within the city [Rome].

1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 33 By the Law of the twelve Tables, only those were called unto the Legal or Intestate Succession of their Parents, that were in the Parent's power at the time of his Death.

1875 H. J. S. Maine Lect. Early Hist. Inst. i. 10 The Roman law..is descended from a small body of Aryan customs reduced to writing in the fifth century b.c., and known as the Twelve Tables of Rome.

1912 Columbia Law Rev. 12 291 If the Twelve Tables gave an action for damage to ‘trees’ it would not do to say ‘vines’.

1954 Classical Jrnl. 49 273/1 The law of the Twelve Tables is the earliest codification of Roman Law known to us.

1992 J. M. Kelly Short Hist. Western Legal Theory ii. 46 As early as 450 bc, the commission which was to draw up the written code of laws afterwards known as the Twelve Tables travelled from Rome to Athens to study the laws of Solon and actually incorporated some of those in their work.