Study Bava Metzia folio 99B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
land is acquired either through the buyer giving money to the seller, or by the seller giving the buyer a bill of sale, or by the buyer performing an act of taking possession, so too, a rental is acquired either through the renter giving money to the owner, or by the owner giving the renter a rental
§ Apropos the mention in the previous discussion of one who misuses consecrated property, the Talmud cites a related matter. Shmuel says: In the case of one who robs another of a cake [ḥavitza] of pressed dates, and in the cake there are 50 dates, which, when sold together, sell for 50-less-one pe
If one robbed, and is paying compensation to, a common person [hedyot], he pays 50-less-one perutot. If one robbed another of a cake that was consecrated to the Temple treasury and he is paying compensation to the Temple treasury, he pays 50 perutot and an additional 1/5th of the value as a fine for
Rav Beivai bar Abaye objects to this: Why, when he pays compensation to a common person, does he pay 50-less-one? Let the victim say to the robber: I would have sold them one by one and received 50 perutot for them; you should therefore compensate me for that entire amount.
Rav Huna, son of Rav Yehoshua, said: We learned in a Mishnah (Bava Kamma 55b): If an animal causes damage to another’s field, the court appraises a large piece of land with an area required for sowing one se’a of seed [beit se’a] in that field, including the garden bed in which the damage took plac