Commentary for Bava Batra 273:11

אמר רבי זירא א"ר יוחנן הלכה כרשב"ג ואפילו היו בהן עבדים והוציאן לחירות

[or] 'Here is thy divorce after [my] death', [the divorce in all these cases] is invalid.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'he said nothing'. because he meant that the divorce shall not become effective except when he died, but after death one cannot give a divorce similarly, in the case of the gift of a dying man, possession was meant to be acquired after and not in death. ');">³⁰</span> R. Zeira said in the name of R. Johanan: The <i>halachah</i> is according to Rabban Simeon b. Gamaliel and even if the estate contained slaves whom he liberated.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The liberation is valid. ');">³¹</span> [Is this not] obvious? — It might have been presumed [that] he could be told that it was not given to him for the purpose of doing what was prohibited,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' It is prohibited to liberate a heathen slave. Cf. Lev. XXV, 46. ');">³²</span>

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