Commentary for Bava Batra 101:10

מיתיבי לוה מן העבד ושחררו מן האשה וגרשה אין להן עליו כלום מאי טעמא לאו משום דאמרינן לגלויי זוזי הוא דבעי

really meant to transfer his field to the other as a gift, and the reason why he made the transfer in the form of a sale was in order to make the recipient's title more secure.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' R. Ashi gives an alternative answer to that given by R. Nahman to the objection raised from this Baraitha. The deed referred to, he says, may be in form one of sale, but even so the land is really given, and the donor by drawing up a deed of sale expresses his readiness to defend the title of the recipient if it should be challenged. In the case of a sale, however, the deed alone does not confer ownership; hence R. Nahman's rule that a man may sell a field to his wife was still necessary. ');">¹⁹</span> An objection<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Against the ruling that if a man sells a field to his wife she becomes the legal owner. ');">²⁰</span>

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