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The Twelve Tables

TABLE IV. PATERNAL POWER

Paul R. (Paul Robinson) Coleman-Norton translation

1. A dreadfully deformed child shall be killed quickly.

2. If a father thrice surrender a son for sale, the son shall be free from the father.[15]

3. [To repudiate his wife her husband] shall order her to mind her own affairs, shall take [her] keys [, shall expel her].

4. Into a legal inheritance he who has been in the womb (in utero) is admitted [, if he shall have been born].[16]

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