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# Twelve Tables
# Twelve Tables
## Overview
The Twelve Tables (~451–450 BCE) were the foundation of Roman law, the first written legal code of the Roman Republic. They were created in response to plebeian demands for publicly accessible laws.
## Key Facts
- Date: ~451–450 BCE
- Issuer: Decemviri (commission of ten men)
- Language: Archaic Latin
- Context: Conflict of the Orders between patricians and plebeians
## Content
- Originally inscribed on twelve bronze tablets displayed in the Roman Forum
- Covered: Court procedure, debt, family law, property, inheritance, torts, public law [^1]
- Established legal equality (in principle) between patricians and plebeians
- Prohibited intermarriage between classes (later repealed by *Lex Canuleia*, 445 BCE)
## Significance
- Foundation of all subsequent Roman law (*ius civile*)
- First written Roman law, ending patrician monopoly on legal interpretation
- Roman schoolchildren memorized them for centuries
- Original tablets lost (possibly in the Gallic sack of Rome, 390 BCE) [^2]
- Survived through quotations in later Roman legal and literary sources
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[^1]: Crawford, M.H. *Roman Statutes* (1996)
[^2]: Watson, A. *Rome of the XII Tables* (Princeton, 1975)
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