2006 Shorter Articles 115 [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 —————————————— 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.).