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, no myrrh-spiced drink, no long garlands, no incense-boxes. 7. Whoever wins a crown (_corona_)[64] himself or through his chattel[65] or by his valor, [a crown] is bestowed on him [, when he is burned or buried] ... on him (who has won it) and on his father [it shall be laid] with impunity (_sine fraude_). 8. This also shall not be done: to make more than one funeral and to spread more than one bier for one person. 9. Gold shall not be added [to a corpse]. But him whose teeth shall have been fastened with gold, if a person shall bury or shall burn him with that (gold), it shall be with impunity (_sine fraude_). 10. It is forbidden for a new pyre (_rogum_) or a burning-mound (_bustum_) to be erected nearer than sixty feet to another person's buildings without the owner's consent.[66] 11. It is forbidden for a vestibule of a sepulcher (_forum_) and a burning-mound (_bustum_)[67] to be acquired by usucapion. TABLE XI. SUPPLEMENTARY LAWS 1. Intermarriage (_conubium_) between plebeians and patricians shall not occur.[68] 2. [Regulations] concerning intercalation. 3. [Declaration concerning] days deemed favorable for official legal action (_dies agendi_). TABLE XII. SUPPLEMENTARY LAWS 1. [There shall lie] a levy of distress (_pignoris capio_)[69] against a person who has bought an animal for sacrifice and pays not the price; likewise against a person who makes not payment for that yoke-beast which any one has lent for this purpose, that therefrom he may raise money to spend on a sacred banquet (sacrifice). 2. If a slave shall have committed theft or shall have done damage ... with his master's knowledge ... the action for damages (_actio noxalis_) is in the slave's name. Arising from delicts committed by children and by slaves of a household ... actions for damages (_actio noxalis_) shall be appointed, that the father or the master can be allowed either to undergo assessment of the suit (_litis aestimatio_) or to deliver [the delinquent] for punishment.[70] 3. If a person has taken [a thing by] a false claim,[71] if he should wish ... the magistrate shall grant three arbitrators (_arbiter_); by their [adverse] arbitration (_arbitrium_) ... [the defendant] shall compound for loss caused by [paying] double [damages from enjoyment of the article].[72] 4. It is forbidden to dedicate for consecrated use (_in sacrum_) any thing of which there is a controversy [about its ownership]; other
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