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אגבה עישור נכסי, אפילו מאצטרובלי דריחיים. אמר רב אשי: כי הוינן בי רב כהנא, מגבינן אפילו מעמלא דבתי.
collect for her 1/10th of her father’s estate, in keeping with the rabbinic ordinance that states that if a man dies, his sons are obligated to give his daughter a tenth of his landed properties as a dowry, and collect it even from his immovable lower millstones, as they too are considered landed property. Rav Ashi said: When we were students in Rav Kahana’s house we would collect for this purpose even from the rent of houses; since this money is earned from real estate, it too has the status of landed property and is included in the dowry calculations.
מתני׳ המוכר את החצר – מכר בתים, בורות, שיחין ומערות; אבל לא את המטלטלין. בזמן שאמר לו: ״הוא וכל מה שבתוכו״ – הרי כולן מכורין. בין כך ובין כך – לא מכר לא את המרחץ, ולא את בית הבד שבתוכה. רבי אליעזר אומר: המוכר את החצר – לא מכר אלא אוירה של חצר.
Mishnah: One who sells a courtyard without specifying what is included in the sale has sold with it the houses, pits, ditches, and caves found in the courtyard, but he has not sold the movable property. When the seller says to the buyer: I am selling you it and everything that is in it, all these components are sold along with the courtyard, even the movable property. Both in this case, where he executes the sale without specification, and in that case, where he adds the phrase that includes the movable property, he has not sold the bathhouse, nor has he sold the olive press that is in the courtyard, as each is an entity with a discrete purpose and not an integral part of the courtyard. R' Eliezer says: One who sells a courtyard without specifying what is included in the sale has sold only the airspace, i.e., the open space, of the courtyard, but nothing found in the courtyard, not even the houses.