5. Unless they (the debtors) make a compromise, they (the debtors) shall be held in bonds for sixty days. During those days they shall be brought to [the magistrate] into the _comitium_ (meeting-place) on three successive market-days and the amount for which they have been judged liable shall be declared publicly. Moreover on the third market-day they (the debtors) shall suffer capital punishment (_capite poenae_) or shall be delivered for sale beyond the Tiber [River].
6. On the third market-day they (the creditors) shall cut pieces.[14] If they shall have cut more or less [than their shares], it shall be with impunity (_s[in]e fraude_).
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]
1. Women shall remain under guardianship (_tutela_), even though they shall become of full age (_perfecta aetas_)[17] ... the Vestal Virgins are excepted [and] shall be free [from control].
2. The mancipable (conveyable or movable) possessions of a woman who is under tutelage of [her] agnates[18] shall not be acquired rightfully by usucapion (long usage or long possession), save if these (possessions) by herself shall have been delivered with the sanction of [her] guardian (_tutor_).[19]
3. According as a person shall have ordered regarding his property or the guardianship (_tutela_) of his estate, so shall be the law (_ita ius esto_).
4. If a person die intestate (_intestatus_) and have no self-successor (_suus heres_), the [deceased's] nearest male agnate shall have possession of the estate.
5. If there be no male agnate, the [deceased's] clansmen[20] shall have possession of the estate.
6. To persons[21] for whom a guardian (_tutor_) shall not have been appointed by will (_testamentum_), to them [their] agnates shall be guardians.
7. If a person be insane (_furiosus_), if there be not a guardian (_custos_) for him, rightful authority over his person and over his property shall belong to [his] agnates and [in default of these] to [his] clansmen. If a person be a spendthrift (_prodigus_), he shall be prohibited from [administering his own] goods and he shall be under the guardianship (_curatio_) of [his] agnates.