Bava Batra 49B

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With regard to an inheritance that comes to a person from another place, i.e., an inheritance one will receive in the future, a person can make a condition about it from the outset that he will not inherit it, since one can waive his future rights to property that is not currently his. And this ru

The Talmud asks: What is meant by: Such as this one? The Talmud explains: Rava is referring to that statement of Rav Huna, who said that Rav says a certain ruling. As Rav Huna says that Rav says: A woman can say to her husband: I will not be sustained by you and, in turn, I will not work, i.e., yo

§ The Mishnah teaches that a husband does not establish the presumption of ownership of his wife’s field by enjoying its profits. The Talmud suggests: By inference, the husband has the ability to bring proof that he purchased the field from his wife or received it as a gift from her and consequently

The Talmud quotes a source for this claim: Didn’t we learn in a Mishnah (Gittin 55b): If one first purchased land from the husband and afterward returned and purchased it from the wife, i.e., he purchased her rights to this land for after the death of her husband or in the event of their divorce, a

The Talmud answers: But wasn’t it stated with regard to that Mishnah that Rabba bar Rav Huna says: The halakha that a woman can claim that she acted only in order to please her husband is not stated with regard to all of her property, but is necessary only with regard to those 3 types of fields tha