-There were three other kinds of taxes, called portorium, decumae and scriptura.
-Citizens could appeal from the magistrates to the people, and the persons who appealed could in no way be punished, until the people determined the matter; but they were chiefly secured by the assistance of the tribunes.
-No Roman citizen could marry a slave, barbarian or foreigner, unless by the permission of the people.
-Women could not transact any business of importance without the concurrence of their parents, husbands, or guardians
-The power of the master over his slave was absolute.
Under Roman law, based on the original Laws of the Twelve Tables published in the 5th century BC, there was no public prosecutor’s office. It was the responsibility of the victim and family to apprehend and prosecute the offender.
As such some of the laws of the twelve tables were:
Table IV.
A dreadfully deformed child shall be quickly killed.
If a father sells his son three times, the son shall be free from his father.
Table VII.
Should a tree on a neighbor's farm be bend crooked by the wind and lean over your farm, you may take legal action for removal of that tree.
Table X.
None is to bury or burn a corpse in the city.
The women shall not tear their faces nor wail on account of the funeral.
-Citizens could appeal from the magistrates to the people, and the persons who appealed could in no way be punished, until the people determined the matter; but they were chiefly secured by the assistance of the tribunes.
-No Roman citizen could marry a slave, barbarian or foreigner, unless by the permission of the people.
-Women could not transact any business of importance without the concurrence of their parents, husbands, or guardians
-The power of the master over his slave was absolute.
Under Roman law, based on the original Laws of the Twelve Tables published in the 5th century BC, there was no public prosecutor’s office. It was the responsibility of the victim and family to apprehend and prosecute the offender.
As such some of the laws of the twelve tables were:
Table IV.
A dreadfully deformed child shall be quickly killed.
If a father sells his son three times, the son shall be free from his father.
Table VII.
Should a tree on a neighbor's farm be bend crooked by the wind and lean over your farm, you may take legal action for removal of that tree.
Table X.
None is to bury or burn a corpse in the city.
The women shall not tear their faces nor wail on account of the funeral.