This document may come to be confused with a bill of divorce and perhaps a man will err and give a bill of divorce using the text of refusal. Therefore, they decreed that one should write as follows: On such and such a day, so-and-so, the daughter of so-and-so, performed refusal in our presence, and no more.
תנו רבנן: אי זהו מיאון? אמרה: ״אי אפשי בפלוני בעלי״, ״אי אפשי בקידושין שקידשוני אמי ואחי״. יתר על כן אמר רבי יהודה: אפילו יושבת באפריון והולכת מבית אביה לבית בעלה, ואמרה: ״אי אפשי בפלוני בעלי״ — זהו מיאון.
§ A baraita states: What constitutes a refusal? If she said: I do not want so-and-so as my husband, or: I do not want the betrothal in which my mother and brothers had me betrothed, that is a refusal. R' Yehuda said more than that: Even if she is sitting in a bridal chair [apiryon] going from her father’s house to her husband’s house and said along the way: I do not want so-and-so as my husband, this constitutes a refusal.
יתר על כן אמר רבי יהודה: אפילו היו אורחין מסובין בבית בעלה והיא עומדת ומשקה עליהם, ואמרה להם: ״אי אפשי בפלוני בעלי״ — הרי הוא מיאון. יתר על כן אמר רבי יוסי בר יהודה: אפילו שיגרה בעלה אצל חנוני להביא לו חפץ משלו, ואמרה: ״אי אפשי בפלוני בעלי״ — אין לך מיאון גדול מזה.
R' Yehuda said even more than that: Even if guests are reclining at her husband’s house and she is standing and serving them drinks as hostess, and she said to them: I do not want so-and-so as my husband, this constitutes a refusal, even though it is possible that she is merely complaining about the effort she is expending. R' Yosei bar Yehuda said more than that: Even if her husband sent her to a shopkeeper to bring him an article of his and she said: I do not want so-and-so as my husband, there is no greater refusal than this.
רבי חנינא בן אנטיגנוס אומר: כל תינוקת וכו׳. אמר רב יהודה אמר שמואל: הלכה כרבי חנינא בן אנטיגנוס. תנא: קטנה שלא מיאנה, ועמדה ונשאת, משום רבי יהודה בן בתירה אמרו: נישואיה הן הן מיאוניה.
§ It was taught in the Mishnah: R' Ḥanina ben Antigonus says: Any girl who is so young that she cannot keep her betrothal safe does not need to refuse. Rav Yehuda said that Shmuel said: The halakha is in accordance with the opinion of R' Ḥanina ben Antigonus. It was taught: In the case of a minor girl who did not refuse her husband, but who went and married someone else, it was said in the name of R' Yehuda ben Beteira: Her new marriage constitutes her refusal, as she made her state of mind known, that she does not want him, and that is sufficient.