Bava Batra 138B

ידה על העליונה; רצה ⁠– נוטלתן, רצה ⁠– נוטלת כתובתה.

she has the advantage; if she wants, she takes the 200 dinars, and if she wants, she takes payment of her marriage contract.

ושכיב מרע שאמר: ״תנו מאתים זוז לפלוני בעל חובי, כראוי לו״⁠ – נוטלן, ונוטל את חובו. ואם אמר: ״בחובו״⁠ – נוטלן בחובו.

The baraita continues: And if there was a person on his deathbed who said: Give 200 dinars to so-and-so, my creditor, as is appropriate for him, the creditor takes the 200 dinars and takes payment of the debt as well. But if he said: Give him 200 dinars as payment for the debt, he takes the 200 dinars as payment for the debt.

משום דאמר ״כראוי לו״⁠ – נוטלן ונוטל את חובו?! ודלמא ״כראוי לו בחובו״ קאמר!

The Talmud asks: Because he says: As is appropriate for him, he takes the 200 dinars and takes payment of the debt as well? But perhaps he was saying: As is appropriate for him as payment for the debt, and meant only to specify the amount of the debt.

אמר רב נחמן, אמר לי הונא: הא מני ⁠– רבי עקיבא היא, דדייק לישנא יתירא;

Rav Naḥman said: Rav Huna said to me: In accordance with whose opinion is this? It is in accordance with the opinion of R' Akiva, who expounds superfluous language. R' Akiva holds that if one uses unnecessary words, he apparently intended to add a matter.

דתנן: ולא את הבור ולא את הדות, אף על פי שכתב לו עומקא ורומא. וצריך ליקח לו דרך, דברי רבי עקיבא.

As we learned in a Mishnah (64a): One who sells a house without specification has sold neither the pit nor the cistern [dut] with it, even if he writes for the buyer in the bill of sale: With its depth and its height. This is because anything that is not part of the house, like pits and cisterns, must be explicitly mentioned in the contract or else they remain in the seller’s possession. And therefore the seller must purchase for himself a path through the buyer’s domain to reach whatever remains his, because he has sold the area of the house along with the house itself, and he no longer has permission to walk there. This is the statement of R' Akiva.