Mishnayos Bava Basra Perek 5 Mishnah 7
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This mishna discusses several methods of acquiring movable property. With regard to one who sells produce to another, if the buyer pulled the produce but did not measure it, he has acquired the produce through the act of acquisition of pulling. If he measured the produce but did not pull it, he has not acquired it, and either the seller or the buyer can decide to rescind the sale. If the buyer is perspicacious and wants to acquire the produce without having to pull it, and he wishes to do so before the seller could change his mind and decide not to sell, he rents its place, where the produce is located, and his property immediately effects acquisition of the produce on his behalf. With regard to one who buys flax from another, because flax is usually carried around this purchaser has not acquired it until he carries it from place to place and acquires it by means of the act of acquisition of lifting. Pulling the flax is ineffective. And if it was attached to the ground, and he detached any amount, he has acquired it, as the Gemara will explain.
הַמּוֹכֵר פֵּרוֹת לַחֲבֵרוֹ, מָשַׁךְ וְלֹא מָדַד, קָנָה. מָדַד וְלֹא מָשַׁךְ, לֹא קָנָה. אִם הָיָה פִקֵּחַ, שׂוֹכֵר אֶת מְקוֹמָן. הַלּוֹקֵחַ פִּשְׁתָּן מֵחֲבֵרוֹ, הֲרֵי זֶה לֹא קָנָה עַד שֶׁיְּטַלְטְלֶנּוּ מִמָּקוֹם לְמָקוֹם. וְאִם הָיָה בִמְחֻבָּר לַקַּרְקַע וְתָלַשׁ כָּל שֶׁהוּא, קָנָה:
Bartenura
משך. מרשות הרבים בסמטא או בחצר של שניהם, קנה. אבל משיכה ברשות הרבים לא מהניא:
אע״פ שלא מדד. וכגון שפסק לו מתחלה הדמים בכך וכך יתן לו המדה. אבל לא פסק לו הדמים, אפי׳ מדד ומשך לא קנה, דלא סמכא דעתייהו, שהמוכר יכול להעלות הדמים כמו שרוצה, והקונה אומר איני קונה אלא בזול:
מדד. המוכר ללוקח ברשות הרבים, אפילו בכליו של לוקח, לא קנה, שאין כליו של אדם קונים לו ברשות הרבים. ואם לוקח עצמו מדד, אפילו ברשות הרבים קנה בהגבהה:
אם היה פקח. הלוקח:
שוכר את מקומו. אם הוא ברשות בעלים. ומקומו קונה לו. ובמשאות גדולות איירי דאין דרכן להגביה, לכך קני במשיכה:
עד שיטלטלנו. היינו הגבהה. ואורחא דמלתא נקט, דדרך מגביה לטלטל ממקום למקום:
ואם היה מחובר לקרקע. בגמרא מוקי לה כגון שאמר לו מוכר ללוקח לך ויפה לי קרקע כל שהוא וקני כל מה שעליה, דכיון ששכרו לעשות מלאכה בקרקע שלו ועשה בו מלאכה כל שהוא, קנה שכירותו, וקנה נמי אותו דבר שרוצה להקנות לו עם השכירות, לפיכך אם תלש כל שהוא קנה:
משך – from the public domain in a recess adjoining an open place to which merchants retire to transact business/market-stand under a colonnade or in a courtyard of both of them, he has acquired it. But taking possession by drawing towards one’s self the object to be acquired in the public domain has no effect.
אע"פ שלא מדד – and such as he case where he fixed a price from the outset for such and then he gives him the measurement, but if he did not fix the price [even though] he measured and drew it towards himself, he did not acquire it, because he did not rely upon the fact that the seller is able to raise the price as he wants and the buyer says: “I won’t purchase it other than at a cheap price.”
מדד – the seller to the purchaser in the public domain, even in the utensils of the purchaser, he did not acquire it, for the utensils of a person do not purchase things for him in the public domain, but if the purchaser himself measured it, even in the public domain, he acquired it through lifting it up.
אם היה פקח – the purchaser.
שוכר את מקומו – if he is in the domain of the owners, and hs place acquires for him. And we are speaking about large burdens where it was not the manner to lift it up, therefore, he acquires it through pulling it.
עד שיטלטלנו – that is through lifting, and it (i.e, the Mishnah) took the way of things – that the way of lifting to carry from one place to another place.
אם היה מחובר לקרקע – In the Gemara (Tractate Bava Batra 87a and see Rashi’s explanation and the reference to Tractate Bava Batra 54a) it is established it as in the case where the seller says to the purchaser: “go and take possession of a small piece of the land and you will acquire everything that is upon it,” for since he had been hired to do work on his (i.e., the owner’s) land, and worked on it a little bit, his being hired acquired it for him, and he acquired also that thing which he had wanted to acquire for himself with his being hired. Therefore, if he tore out a little bit, he acquired/bought it.