Twelve Tables

British  

plural noun

1. the earliest code of Roman civil, criminal, and religious law, promulgated in 451–450 _bc

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Example Sentences

In the Twelve Tables, published in the Forum, Rome’s laws were written for the first time and were then accessible to all citizens.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Thus, in 451 BCE, members of the Roman government wrote the Twelve Tables, lists of the laws available for everyone to see, which were then posted in the Roman Forum in the center of Rome.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

The Twelve Tables established the idea that all free citizens had a right to the protection of the law.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

And, indeed, it is also clear that poetry was in fashion from the laws of the Twelve Tables, wherein it is provided, that no song should be made to the injury of another.

From The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero by Yonge, Charles Duke

But even before the publication of the Twelve Tables it had been turned, by the ingenuity of the jurisconsults, into an expedient for destroying the parental authority wherever the father desired that it should cease.

From Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society by Maine, Henry Sumner, Sir