Table IX: Public Law

Laws of personal exception [i.e., bills of attainder] must be proposed; cases in which the penalty affects the person of a citizen must not be decided except through the greatest assembly¹⁷ and through those whom the censors¹⁸ have placed upon the register of citizens.
The penalty shall be capital punishment for a judge or arbiter legally appointed who has been found guilty of receiving a bribe for giving a decision.
He who shall have roused up a public enemy, or handed over a citizen to a public enemy, must suffer capital punishment.
Putting to death... of any man who has not been convicted, whosoever he might be, is forbidden.

¹⁷The right of appeal to the comitia centuriata.
¹⁸In the time of the Twelve Tables, the consuls.

Table X: Sacred Law

A dead man shall not be buried or burned within the city.
One must not do more than this [at funerals]; one must not smooth the pyre with an axe.
... three veils, one small purple tunic, and ten flute-players...
Women must not tear cheeks or hold chorus of "Alas!" on account of funeral.
When a man is dead one must not gather his bones in order to make a second funeral.¹⁹ An exception [in the case of] death in war or in a foreign land...
Anointing by slaves is abolished, and every kind of drinking bout.
Let there be no costly sprinkling... no long garlands... no incense boxes....
When a man wins a crown himself or through a chattel or by dint of valor, the crown bestowed on him... [may be laid in the grave] with impunity [on the man who won it] or on his father.
To make more than one funeral for one man and to make and spread more than one bier for him... this should not occur... and a person must not add gold...
But him whose teeth shall have been fastened together with gold, if a person shall bury or burn him along with that gold, it shall be with impunity.
No new pyre or personal burning-mound must be erected nearer than sixty feet to another person's buildings without consent of the owner... the entrance chamber [of a tomb] and burning place cannot be acquired by usucapio.

¹⁹This provision forbids prolonged mourning through the device of second funerals.