Commentary for Bava Batra 101:3

הא ראיה יש לימא לגלויי זוזי הוא דבעי

A WIFE HAS NO <i>HAZAKAH</i> IN THE PROPERTY OF HER HUSBAND. Surely this is self-evident; since the husband has to maintain her, [we suppose that when she occupies the field] she is merely deriving her maintenance from it? — The rule had to be stated [to cover the case] where he assigned her another field for her maintenance.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In which case, but for the rule of the Mishnah, I might suppose that three years' occupation would give her hazakah. ');">⁵</span> [Since the Mishnah says only that the wife has no <i>hazakah</i>], we infer that if she brings proof<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' E.g., a deed of sale or witnesses. ');">⁶</span>

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