Commentary for Bava Batra 276:7

אלמא כיון דלא צריך וקאמר לטפויי מלתא קאתי הכא נמי כיון דלא צריך וקאמר לטפויי מלתא קא אתי:

to add something; [so] here also, since he mentioned [that]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' 'In accordance with his due'. ');">¹⁷</span> which was not necessary, his object was to add something.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., that the sum shall be in addition to his debt. ');">¹⁸</span> Our Rabbis taught: If a dying man said, 'X owes me a <i>maneh</i>', the witnesses may write [it down].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As a memorandum of what they heard. ');">¹⁹</span>

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