The Twelve Tables were the legislation that stood at the foundation of Roman law, formally promulgated in 449 BC. They consolidated Rome's earlier legal traditions into an enduring, publicly displayed body of law from which later Roman legal practice developed.
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Document TypeLegislation (Roman law code) 1 Creation Year Current LocationLost, no original extant 1 Original tablets no longer survive; only quotations in later Roman sources. Original Language Document Type
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Source Twelve Tables (Wikipedia)
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1. Twelve Tables (Wikipedia)
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legislation that stood at the foundation of Roman law
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The Twelve Tables are no longer extant
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All Roman sources quote the Twelve Tables in a modernised form of Latin
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Latin: Lex Duodecim Tabularum
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In Era: Classical Antiquity, lead paragraph and infobox, date
The Twelve Tables () was the legislation that stood at the foundation of Roman law. Formally promulgated in 449 BC, the Tables consolidated earlier tr
View the Source2. Wikidata: Twelve Tables
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Formally promulgated in 449 BC
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