Commentary for Bava Batra 140:6

שלח רב הונא בר אבין המפקיד אצל חבירו בשטר ואמר לו החזרתיו לך נאמן ושטר כיס היוצא על היתומין נשבע וגובה כולו

and the other holds that he cannot? — No; all concur in the view of R. Hisda [that he cannot], and here the point of difference is this, that the one [the judges of the Exile] holds that if the borrower had paid [before his death] he would have told [his children],<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Therefore we cannot plead on their behalf that the money had been returned, although if the father had been alive he could have effectively pleaded thus, as explained above. ');">¹⁰</span> while the other holds that we may presume death<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'Angel of death'. ');">¹¹</span>

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