Commentary for Bava Batra 338:3

אדהכי והכי שמיט ואכיל פירי

would call upon, and seize [the fields of subsequent] buyers, while [these] buyers [would] have no quittance [to show].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The first buyer, wore he able to secure a duplicate deed on a plea of having lost the original, would, thereby, be placed in a position to form a conspiracy with the creditor to defraud subsequent buyers. ');">⁷</span> After all, however, [would] not the buyers [ultimately] return to the owner of the land?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., the seller, to claim compensation for the lands seized; and he would, naturally, tell them about the quittance wherewith they could to — claim the lands of which they were robbed by the first buyer. ');">⁸</span> — In the meantime he<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The first buyer. ');">⁹</span>

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