Commentary for Bava Batra 121:7

ולא את החדר שלפנים הימנו: השתא יציע לא מיזדבן חדר מיבעיא

Mar Zutra said: [A verandah is not sold with a room] only if it has an area of four [square] cubits.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because otherwise it is not reckoned a separate structure. ');">¹⁷</span> Said Rabina to Mar Zutra: On your view that it must be four [square] cubits, what about the cistern, of which we have learnt, that the cistern and the well are not included [in the sale of the house] even if he [the seller] inserts in the deed of sale the words 'to the height and to the depth'?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. infra 64a. ');">¹⁸</span> [Are we to say that] there likewise [the rule] applies only if they have an area of four cubits, but otherwise not? — [He replied]: How can you compare the two? The cistern and the well are used for quite different purposes from the house,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And therefore it is reasonable that they should not be included in the house. ');">¹⁹</span> but here both [the verandah and the house] are used for the same purposes. Hence if it is four cubits [square], it is reckoned as a separate structure, but if less not. NOR AN INSIDE ROOM WHICH IS ENTERED FROM IT. If a verandah is not sold [along with the living room], do we need to be told that an inside room is not?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Seeing that it is used for quite distinct purposes from the living room, e.g.. as a box room. ');">²⁰</span>

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