Ketubot 80A

רבי אבא, אמרי בי רב: אפילו שיגרא דתמרי. בעי רב ביבי: חובצא דתמרי מאי? תיקו.

by R' Abba that in the school of Rav they say: It is even a cluster of dates stuck together. Rav Beivai asks: If one ate dough made of dates, what is the halakha? Is this considered dignified consumption? The Talmud concludes: The question should stand unresolved.

לא אכלה דרך כבוד מאי? אמר עולא: פליגי בה תרי אמוראי במערבא, חד אמר: בכאיסר, וחד אמר: בכדינר.

The Talmud asks: If he did not eat it in a dignified manner, what is the halakha? How much must he eat to be deemed a proper act of consumption? Ulla said: Two amora’im in the West, i.e., Eretz Yisrael, disagree about this matter. One said: He ate the amount of an issar, and one said: He ate the measure of a dinar.

אמרי דייני דפומבדיתא: עבד רב יהודה עובדא בחבילי זמורות. רב יהודה לטעמיה, דאמר רב יהודה: אכלה ערלה, שביעית, וכלאים ⁠— הרי זו חזקה.

The judges of Pumbedita say: Rav Yehuda took action in a case of a bundle of branches. A husband took them from his wife’s property and fed them to his animals, and Rav Yehuda ruled that this was treated as consumption of her property. The Talmud comments: Rav Yehuda conforms to his line of reasoning. As Rav Yehuda said: If one took possession of a plot of land and consumed some of the produce of its trees that was forbidden due to the prohibition against eating the fruit of a tree during the first 3 years after its planting [orla] or produce of the 7th year, or a forbidden mixture of diverse kinds, this is considered taking possession of the land, as he was allowed to benefit from the permitted branches.

אמר רב יעקב אמר רב חסדא: המוציא הוצאות על נכסי אשתו קטנה ⁠— כמוציא על נכסי אחר דמי. מאי טעמא ⁠— עבדו בה רבנן תקנתא, כי היכי דלא ניפסדינהו.

§ Rav Yaakov said that Rav Ḥisda said: With regard to one who outlays expenditures for the property of his wife who is a minor girl and was married off by her mother or brothers, he is considered like one who outlays expenditures for the property of someone else. Therefore, if she performed refusal upon reaching maturity, thereby annulling the marriage, he takes the value of the improvement. What is the reason for this? The rabbis enacted this ordinance in order that he should not let her property depreciate. If he is not guaranteed reimbursement for his expenses if she refuses him as her husband, he will not attend to the upkeep of her property, causing its value to decline.