Other important statutes
Besides the Law of the Twelve Tables, a number of important statutes were enacted during the early republican period. As was noted before, most of these statutes were concerned with matters of public law and only a few affected the development of private and procedural law.
In the first category belonged, for example, the lex Valeria Horatia (449 BC), which recognised the inviolability of the plebeian tribunes; the lex Canuleia (445 BC), which permitted intermarriages between patricians and plebeians; the lex Aemilia (434 BC), which limited the duration of the censorship to eighteen months; the lex Publilia Philonis (339 BC), which removed the early rule according to which legislative enactments of the popular assemblies had to be approved by the senate after their passage; and the lex Hortensia de plebiscitis (287 BC) under which the resolutions of the plebeian assembly were made binding on the whole people. Among the most important statutes relating to private law were the lex Aquilia (286 BC), which set general rules of liability for damage caused to another person's property, and the lex Atinia (third century BC), which excluded stolen things {res furtivae) from usucapio (the acquisition of ownership through possession of a thing for a prescribed period of time).
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