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An early legal reference to the mentally disabled can be found in the Twelve Tables of Rome, published in 449 B.C. "If a person is a fool, let his person and his good? Be under the protection of his family or his paternal relatives, if he is not under the care of anyone." This mention of the mentally disabled in the Twelve Tables relates the need for a form of guardianship that would be provided by the family.