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The Twelve Tables (Lex duodecim tabularum)
After a 16-year battle with their last king, Tarquin the Proud, the people of Rome vowed never to be ruled by a king again. The people wanted to be ruledby elected leaders. They wanted to vote on any laws suggested. They wanted to vote on who would rule over them each year. 
In 509 BCE, over 2500 years ago, the citizens of Rome created a newgovernment. They called it THE ROMAN REPUBLIC. 
Although many things changed, and much improved, women, children, and slaves were still not citizens of Rome. They had no voice in government. Only adult freeRoman men were citizens.
But, things did improve under the Republic. About 50 years after the Roman Republic was formed, the leaders of the Republic wrote down many of the old laws, to make sureeveryone understood them. History refers to this group of laws as "The Twelve Tables" because the written laws were organized into 12 sections. 
These laws talked about property, crime, family, theft,marriage and inheritance. It does not really matter what they said, although the laws did try to be fair. What matters is that these laws were written down. They were engraved on tablets of metal andput on display at the Forum in the city of Rome, so that everyone could see them. 
Each law applied to every Roman citizen, be he rich or poor. That was a huge change for the better!
Here are a few ofthe laws in the Twelve Tables 
These have been reworded
1. If you are called to go to court, you must go. If you don’t show up, you can be taken to court by force.  

2. If you need awitness to testify and he will not show up, you can go once every three days and shout in front of his house.
3. Should a tree on a neighbor's farm be bend crooked by the wind and lean over your farm,you may take legal action for removal of that tree.
4. If it's your tree, it’s your fruit, even if it falls on another man’s land.  

5. A person who had been found guilty of giving false...