TABLE IX. PUBLIC LAW
Paul R. (Paul Robinson) Coleman-Norton translation
1. Laws of personal exception (privilegium)[55] shall not be proposed.
2. [Laws] concerning the person (caput)[56] of a citizen shall not be passed except by the greatest assembly (maximus comitiatus)[57] and through those whom they (the consuls)[58] have placed upon the registers of the citizenry.
3. A judge (iudex) or an arbitrator (arbiter) legally (iure) appointed, who has been convicted of receiving money for declaring a decision, shall be punished capitally (capite).
4. [Provisions pertaining to] the investigators of murder (quaestor parricidii) [appointed to have charge over capital cases].
5. Whoever shall have incited a public enemy (hostis) or whoever shall have delivered a citizen (civis) to a public enemy shall be punished capitally (capite).
6. It is forbidden to put to death … unconvicted any one whomsoever.