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they include a property guarantee he may not return them to the lender, as he does not know who lost them. It is possible that the debt has already been paid and the documents were returned to the borrower, and he lost them. He may not give them back to the lender even if the borrower admits that he
If, however, the documents were of the kind that do not include a property guarantee he returns them, as in this case the court does not collect from purchasers of the borrower’s property. This is the statement of R' Meir. And the Rabbis say: In both this case and that one, he may not return the pr
If so, the first clause of the Mishnah here is in accordance with the opinion of R' Meir, and the latter clause is in accordance with the opinion of R' Yehuda. And if you would say that the entire Mishnah is in accordance with the opinion of R' Meir, and there is a difference for R' Meir between a m
Isn’t it taught in a baraita: 5 claims may be collected only from free assets, and they are as follows: Produce, and enhancement to the produce. And likewise, in the case of one who accepts upon himself the duty to sustain his wife’s son or his wife’s daughter and then dies, they receive their suppo
The Talmud reasons: Whom have you heard say that omission of the property guarantee from a document is not a scribal error? R' Meir, and yet the baraita teaches that the same applies to the marriage contract of a wife. This proves that according to R' Meir, there is no difference between a marriage