WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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: -Tradition tells us that the code was composed by a commission, first of ten and then of twelve men, in 451-450 B.C., was ratifed by the Centuriate Assembly in 449 B.C., was engraved on twelve tablets (whence the title), which were attached to the Rostra before the Curia in the Forum of Rome.

Detailed explanation-3: -The first written law code of ancient Rome is referred to as the Twelve Tables. The Twelve Tables were the foundation of Roman law. Displayed in the Roman Forum, the Twelve Tables laid out the duties and rights of all Roman citizens.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Twelve Tables One of the innovations of the Roman Republic was the notion of equality under the law. In 449 B.C.E., government leaders carved some of Rome’s most important laws into 12 great tablets. The Twelve Tables, as they came to be known, were the first Roman laws put in writing.

Detailed explanation-5: -There are a number of similarities that are shared between the Code of Hammurabi and the Roman Law of the 12 tables. Both are a code of laws with universal consequences and rules that everyone in that society must obey.