Commentary for Bava Batra 342:14

קסבר אין כותבין שובר

Said R. Hamnuna: This law applies only to<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'they did not teach but'. ');">²⁵</span> bonds of indebtedness but [in the case of] deeds of purchase and sale even [those which are] postdated are invalid. What is the reason? [A person] might sometimes sell [a plot of] land to another in Nisan and write [the deed] for him in Tishri; and in the meantime he might obtain some money and repurchase it from him.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Without having the deed of sale returned to him, the buyer having asserted that he lost it. ');">²⁶</span>

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