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[XX DE INCENDIARIIS]
Incendiarii, qui quid in oppido praedandi causa faciunt,
capite puniantur. QUI CASU INSULAM AUT VILLAM, NON EX
INIMICITIIS INCENDERINT, LEVIUS. FORTUITA ENIM INCENDIA AD
FORUM REMITTENDA SUNT, UT DAMNUM VICINIS SARCIATUR. Qui
casam aut villam inimicitiarum gratia incenderunt, humilio-
res in metallum aut in opus publicum damnantur, honestio-
res in insulam relegantur. Fortuita incendia, quae casu venti
ferente vel incuria ignem supponentis ad usque vicini agros
evadunt, si ex eo seges vel vinea vel olivae vel fructiferae ar-
bores concrementur, datum damnum aestimatione sarciatur.
Commissum vero servorum, si domino videatur, noxae dedi-
tione sarcitur. Messium sane per dolum incensores, vinearum
olivarumve aut in metallum humiliores damnantur, aut hon-
estiores in insulam relegantur. Qui noctu frugiferas arbores
manu facta ceciderint, ad tempus plerumque in opus publi-
cum damnantur aut honestiores damnum sarcire coguntur
vel curia submoventur vel relegantur.
Robert M. Frakes
*
Clarion University
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The Buyer Who Wants to Pay More
A valid sale required a price that was agreed and certain.
1
Some
modern works nevertheless consider whether the law ignored a
certain species of error in price: the seller is willing to accept less
money than the buyer wishes to give, and a valid sale is formed on
the lesser price. A single text of Pomponius suggests this might
*
Roman Legal Tradition, 3 (2006), 111–15. ISSN 1551-1375. Copy-
right © 2006 by Robert M. Frakes. All rights reserved. The author thanks
the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung as well as Professors Dieter Nörr
and Alfons Bürge for facilitating the research for this article at the Leo-
pold Wenger Institute for Ancient Legal History at the University of Mu-
nich.
1
J.3.23.1; D.19.1.9 pr. (Ulpian 28 Sab.).