Study Bava Batra folio 51A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
but the judges of the exile said that one can establish the presumption of ownership. Rav says: The halakha is in accordance with the opinion of the judges of the exile. Rav Kahana and Rav Asi said to Rav: Has the Master retracted his halakha that one cannot establish the presumption of ownership
§ The Mishnah teaches: And a wife does not have the ability to establish the presumption of ownership with regard to her husband’s property. The Talmud asks: Isn’t that obvious? Since she has the right to sustenance from her husband’s property, she is enjoying the profits as payment of her sustenan
The Talmud asks: By inference, the wife has the ability to bring proof of her ownership and take possession of her husband’s field. Why is this proof valid? Let him say that he desires to expose her concealed money. If he offers to sell the field to her and she agrees, it will be discovered that sh
Can one conclude from this Mishnah that in the case of one who sells a field to his wife, she has acquired it, and we do not say that he desires to expose her concealed money? The Talmud answers: No, as one may say that the inference from the Mishnah that if she has proof then she has ownership ri
The Talmud relates: Rav Naḥman said to Rav Huna: The Master was not with us in the evening in the study hall that is within the boundaries of the town, where we said a superior matter. Rav Huna said to him: What superior matter did you say? Rav Naḥman responded: In the case of one who sells a fie