3.  If they (the parties) disagree, boundaries shall be marked by three arbitrators (arbiter).[32]

4. [Regulations relating to] inclosures, inherited plots, cottages.[33]

5.  The width of a road [extends to] eight feet on a straight [stretch], [but it extends to] sixteen [feet] on a bend.

6. [Neighboring] persons shall mend the roadway.  If they keep it not laid with stones, one shall drive [one’s] beast vehicles [across the land] where one shall wish.

7.  If rain-water do damage [through artificial diversion from its natural channels, the offending owner] shall be restrained by an arbitrator (arbiter).

8.  If a water-course directed through a public place shall do damage to a private person, to the [same] private person shall be [the right to bring] an action (actio), that damage shall be repaired for the owner.

9.  Branches of a tree may be lopped all around to a height of fifteen feet.[34] If a tree on a neighbor’s farm [be bent crooked] by the wind [and] lean over one’s farm, [one can take] legal action (agere) for removal of that [tree or at least of the offending part of it].

10. [The owner of a tree] may gather its fruit which falls upon another’s farm.

TABLE VIII.  TORTS OR DELICTS

1.  If any person had sung or had composed a song,[35] which caused slander[36] or insult to another person ... he should be clubbed to death.[37]

2.  A person who had sung an evil spell ...[38]

3.  If a person has broken another’s limb (membrum),[39] unless he make agreement [for compensation] with him, there shall be retaliation in kind (talio).[40]

4.  If a person has broken or has bruised a bone with hand club, he [shall] undergo a penalty of 300 [asses, if] to [an injured] freeman, [or] of 150 [asses,] if to [an injured] slave.

5.  If a person shall have done [simple] harm (iniuria) to another, penalties shall be 25 asses.

6. [If] a person shall have caused loss ... [41]

7.  If a quadruped shall be said to have caused damage (pauperies), legal action (actio) [shall be sanctioned] either for the surrender of the thing which made the damage[42] or for the offer of assessment for the damage.

8. [If a person] pasture [his] cattle [on a neighbor’s land, he shall be liable to a legal action].[43]

9.  He who has enchanted crops[44] ... nor should he decoy another’s corn ... [45]

10.  For pasturing on or for cutting secretly by night [another’s] crops acquired by tillage [shall be] in the case of an adult hanging and death [by sacrifice] to Ceres;[46] a person under the age of puberty (under 15 years of age) [shall] either be scourged at the discretion [of the magistrate] or make composition by [paying] double [damages] for the harm [done].