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הא דמסיק ביה כשיעור ארעא ושבחא, הא דלא מסיק ביה אלא כשיעור ארעא.
This ruling, that Shmuel would collect the enhanced value, is for a case where the creditor is owed by the debtor the amount of the value of the land and the enhanced value. That ruling, that Shmuel would not collect the value of the enhancement, is for a case where the creditor is owed by the debtor only the amount of the value of the land.
אמר ליה, הניחא למאן דאמר: אי אית ליה זוזי ללוקח – לא מצי מסלק ליה לבעל חוב, שפיר. אלא למאן דאמר: אי אית ליה זוזי ללוקח – מצי מסלק ליה לבעל חוב, לימא ליה: אי הוו לי זוזי – הוה מסליקנא לך מכוליה ארעא, השתא – הב לי גריוא דארעא שיעור שבחאי!
Ravina said to him: This works out well according to the one who says: If the purchaser of the field has money, he still cannot remove the creditor from the land, i.e., the creditor has the right to collect the land. This is well. But according to the one who says: If the purchaser of the field has money, he can remove the creditor from the land, i.e., the purchaser can choose to pay him money instead, let the purchaser say: If I had money, I would remove you from all of the land; now that I do not have sufficient money to pay what you are owed, give me at least a se’a [griva] of land, which is the amount of my enhancement.
אמר ליה: הכא במאי עסקינן – כגון דשויה ניהליה אפותיקי, דאמר ליה: לא יהא לך פרעון אלא מזה.
Rav Ashi said to him: With what are we dealing here? We are dealing with a case where the debtor set aside this field as designated repayment for him, as he said to him: You should not be repaid from anything but this, in which case he clearly has a lien on this field and nothing else.
אמר רבא: גזל והשביח ומכר, וגזל והשביח והוריש – מה שהשביח מכר, מה שהשביח הוריש.
§ The Talmud continues the discussion of a stolen item that has been enhanced. Rava says: If one robbed another of an item and enhanced it and sold it to another, and similarly, if one robbed another of an item and enhanced it and then died and bequeathed it, he sold that which he enhanced and bequeathed that which he enhanced. And the robbery victim, should he wish to recover the stolen item, must pay the purchaser or heir for the enhanced value.
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