WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -Definition. The Twelve Tables (aka Law of the Twelve Tables) was a set of laws inscribed on 12 bronze tablets created in ancient Rome in 451 and 450 BCE. They were the beginning of a new approach to laws which were now passed by government and written down so that all citizens might be treated equally before them.

Detailed explanation-2: -Law of the Twelve Tables established the jus civile, the laicization of the right, and contemplated the family, marriage, divorce and inheritances; possession and transfer of property, assaults and injuries against people and property; and debts, slavery, insolvency subjection with the agreement of the parties (nexum).

Detailed explanation-3: -The Twelve Tables were very simply much like the American Constitution and Bill of Rights, they were a codified and listed set of rules citizens had to follow, and limits on the powers the government had over them. They were created following a Secessio Plebis.