Table IX. Public Law

1. Laws of personal exception (privilegium) shall not be proposed.

2. [Laws] concerning the person (caput) of a citizen shall not be passed except by the greatest assembly (maximus comitiatus) and through those whom they (the consuls) 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.