Commentary for Bava Batra 324:5

מסייע ליה לחזקיה דאמר חזקיה מלאהו בקרובים כשר

[If] four or five witnesses have signed on a deed, and the first two were found to be relatives or [such as are in any other way] disqualified,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. Rashb. a.l. Current edd., 'four and (or) five witnesses … and one of them was found to be a relative etc.' ');">⁸</span> the evidence may be confirmed by the remaining witnesses.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Though the signatures of the disqualified witnesses are entirely ignored, the space, nevertheless, on which their signatures are written, even if it extends to two lines between the text and the signatures of the qualified witnesses, is not regarded as a blank to disqualify the deed. ');">⁹</span>

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