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they caused their own loss by not investigating whether there was a lien on the property that they intended to buy.
The Talmud asks: And did Rav, in fact, say this, that one can collect sold property by means of witnesses alone? But didn’t we learn in a Mishnah (175a): One who lends money to another with a promissory note collects his debt from liened property that had been sold after the loan, if the debtor ha
And if you would say that Rav is a tanna, and as such has the authority to dispute the determination in the Mishnah, but didn’t Rav himself and Shmuel both say: One who is owed a debt due to a loan by oral contract does not collect liened property, not from the heirs of the debtor nor from the buye
The Talmud answers: Are you raising a contradiction from a case of a loan to a case of a sale? They are not comparable. In the case of a loan, when one borrows money he borrows discreetly, in order that his property not be devalued, as people will pay less for his property if they know that he is
The Talmud continues the discussion of the establishment of the presumption of ownership by successive possessors. A baraita states: If the father worked and profited from the land for one year and the son who inherited it from him worked and profited from it for two years, or if the father worked