Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Commentary for Bava Batra 55:2

שדה הבעל חזקתה שלש שנים ואינן מיום ליום

FROM DAY TO DAY.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., from any date in one year to a corresponding date three years later. The reason for this regulation is discussed in the Gemara. ');"><sup>4</sup></span> A PRESUMPTIVE TITLE TO A NON-IRRIGATED FIELD IS CONFERRED BY THREE YEARS' POSSESSION NOT RECKONED FROM DAY TO DAY.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As explained in what follows. ');"><sup>5</sup></span> R. ISHMAEL SAYS: IT IS SUFFICIENT TO HAVE THREE MONTHS IN THE FIRST YEAR, THREE MONTHS IN THE LAST AND TWELVE IN THE MIDDLE,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because some crops are sown in the last three months of the year and some in the first three, and to crop the field at these times is equivalent to possessing it for a year. ');"><sup>6</sup></span>

Rashi on Bava Batra

Field of the house owner - Nourished from rain water, it doesn't make fruits except one time in a year, his chazaka is 3 years and (it does) not need to be from day to day. And what is its Chazaka? Rabbi Ishmael says last three months of the first year and three first months of the last year and a complete middle (year), that (because) there is the hurry to plant before the the new year, and since the chazaka comes (at)three months at the end of the first year and he has witnesses that he planted in those three months and also in the first three months of the last (year), behold this is chazaka of three continious years, that (because) there isn't for you, a man who sees that his friend plants his field (so as) to eat the fruit made (grown) for the year and stays quiet.
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