HISTORY
ANCIENT ROME
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Question
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They were written by two different people.
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The author(s) of the laws decided that arson was a more serious crime than property damage.
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Loss of citizenship was equal to five lashings by a whip.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -If disease or age is an impediment, he shall grant him a team (of oxen). He shall not spread with cushions the covered carriage if he does not wish to. Whoever is in need of evidence, he shall go on every third day to call out loud before the doorway of the witness."
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 Law of the Twelve tables (Latin: Leges Duodecim Tabularum or Duodecimo Tabulae) was the legislation that stood at the foundation of Roman law.
Detailed explanation-4: -Roman law, like other ancient systems, originally adopted the principle of personality-that is, that the law of the state applied only to its citizens. Foreigners had no rights and, unless protected by some treaty between their state and Rome, they could be seized like ownerless pieces of property by any Roman.