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and change them into a smaller number of dinars. Therefore, what can you say? The highest and lowest remaining possibilities are: 600 istira and a dinar, and 600 dinars and one more dinar. The guiding principle is that the holder of the document is at a disadvantage, and the lesser of these two
§ Abaye said: With regard to this one who needs to show his signature in court for the purpose of corroborating his signature on a document, he should not show it by writing it at the end of the parchment, lest another, unscrupulous, person find the parchment and write above the signature that the
The Talmud relates: There was a certain Jewish tax collector who came before Abaye and said to him: Let the Master show me his signature on a piece of paper to keep in my records, as when rabbis come to me and show me a note with your signature on it, attesting to the fact that they are Torah schola
§ Abaye said: When writing a promissory note, one should not write any number from 3 until 10 at the end of a line, lest someone commit forgery and write an extension to the number, since it is at the end of the line. In Hebrew and Aramaic, the words for the numbers 3 through 9 can be changed to 30
The Talmud relates: There was a certain bill of sale in which it was written that the item sold was: In my garden, 1/3rd of the orchard. The purchaser went and erased the roof and the foot of the beit of the term: Of the orchard [befardeisa], and thereby changed the prefix beit into a vav, yielding