1. Roman Empire

2. The Twelve Tables (parts)
Law IV. Where anyone commits a theft by night, and having been caught in the act is killed, he is legally killed.
Law V. If anyone commits a theft during the day, and is caught in the act, he shall be scourged, and given up as a slave to the person against whom the theft was committed. If he who perpetrated the theft is a slave, he shall be beaten with rods and hurled from the Tarpeian Rock. If he is under the age of puberty, the Praetor shall decide whether he shall be scourged, and surrendered by way of reparation for the injury.
Law VIII. Whenever anyone accuses and convicts another of theft which is not manifest, and no stolen property is found, judgment shall be rendered to compel the thief to pay double the value of what was stolen.
Law IX. Where anyone secretly cuts down trees belonging to another, he shall pay twenty-five asses for each tree cut down..

3. Roman Wax Tablet, No. 1

4. A Roman formula
Let Gaius be judge. If it appears that the slave which is at issue belongs to Aulus Agerius at civil law, and it has not in the opinion of the judge been restored to Aulus Agerius, whatever its value shall be let the judge condemn Numerius Negidus to pay that to Aulus Agerius; if it does not so appear, let him absolve.

5. Admirable? No.
Influential? Absolutely.