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Twelve Tables
The Twelve Tables were the earliest written code of Roman law, drawn up by a board of ten men, the decemviri, in 451–450 BCE in response to plebeian demands. They covered legal procedure, debt, family, property and crime. The original bronze or wooden tablets are lost, but fragments survive in quotations by later writers.
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