Study Bava Metzia folio 104B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
The Talmud answers: The writing of this statement in the document is effective for depreciation. If the collateral depreciates in value, the creditor may claim the remainder of the debt from the debtor’s property.
§ The Talmud continues: R' Yosei would also expound common language, as it is taught in a baraita that R' Yosei says: In a location where they were accustomed to formulate the terms of a marriage contract as one would formulate the terms of a loan, i.e., the precise value of her dowry is written in
The Talmud relates: The rabbis of Neharbela collected, i.e., allowed the wife to collect, 1/3rd of the stated sum, as the custom in their location was to write 3 times the actual amount of the dowry in the marriage contract. Mareimar would allow the wife to collect even the added value of those sum
Ravina said to Mareimar: But isn’t it taught in the baraita that in a location where the custom is to record double the amount, she collects only half? The Talmud answers: This is not difficult; in this case, where Mareimar allowed the wife to collect the full sum, the husband performed an act of
The Talmud relates: Ravina wrote an enhancement of the value of the dowry for his daughter in her marriage contract, in keeping with the accepted custom. The groom’s family said to Ravina: Let us perform an act of acquisition with the Master, so that he would be required to give that entire sum as