Institutes of Gaius (c. 170 A.D.) Fourth Commentary, The
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Book ID: 409 Page: 2
Section: 4B
Hence, it was decided that, a person who brought an action against another for cutting his vines, and in the pleadings called them “vines,” should lose his case, as he ought to have called them “trees,” because the Law of the Twelve Tables, under which the action for cutting vines was brought, speaks in general terms of the cutting of trees.
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Book ID: 409 Page: 5
Section: 4B
The proceeding of Manus Injectio was employed in certain cases, as for instance, by the Law of the Twelve Tables, when judgment had been obtained against a debtor. This was as follows: the party who brought the suit said, “As judgment has been rendered against you, or you have been condemned to pay me ten thousand sesterces, and you have not paid them, for this reason I lay my hands upon you, as being indebted to me under the judgment for ten thousand sesterces”; and at the same time he seized him by some part of the body, and the debtor was not permitted to resist, or to protect himself by law, but he appointed a defender, who conducted the case for him, or, if he did not do so, he was taken to his house by the plaintiff and placed in chains.
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