Twelve Tables of Rome

Lex Duodecim Tabularum

1	No one shall render sacred any property with reference to which there is a controversy in court, where issue has already been joined; and if anyone does render such property sacred, he shall pay double its value as a penalty.
2	If the claim of anyone in whose favor judgment was rendered after the property had been illegally seized, or after possession of the same had been delivered, is found to be false, the magistrate shall appoint three arbiters, by whose award double the amount of the profits shall be restored by him in whose favor the judgment was rendered.
3	If a slave shall have committed theft or done damage with his master"s knowledge, the action for damages is in the slave's name.
4	If a slave, with the knowledge of his master, should commit a theft, or cause damage to anyone, his master shall be given up to the other party by way of reparation for the theft, injury, or damage committed by the slave.
5	Whatever the people had last ordained should be held as binding by law.