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in a case where there is uncertainty whether she is divorced or whether she is not divorced, and this is in accordance with the opinion of R' Zeira. As R' Zeira says that R' Yirmeya bar Abba says that Shmuel says: Wherever the rabbis said with regard to a woman that there is uncertainty whether she
§ Rav Naḥman said: Rav Huna said to me that with regard to all of the types of people who do not have the ability to establish the presumption of ownership, when they bring proof by means of a document or witnesses that a field belongs to them, their proof is a valid proof and the court places the
The Talmud asks: What is this teaching us? We already learned in a Mishnah (Gittin 55b): If one purchased land from a Sicarius [Sikarikon], a violent non-Jew who had extorted the field from its owner with threats, and afterward one returned and purchased the same field from the prior owner, his pur
The Talmud answers: Rav Huna’s statement serves to exclude that which Rav says, as Rav says: They taught that the purchase of a field from the prior owner after one purchased it from a Sicarius is void only when the prior owner said to the buyer at the time of the sale: Go take possession and thereb
Therefore, Rav Huna teaches us that he rules in accordance with the opinion of Shmuel, as Shmuel says: He does not acquire the field even if the transaction was performed along with a document being given, until the owner of the field writes a property guarantee, i.e., a document that states that i