Commentary for Bava Batra 83:7

אמר רב פפא כי תניא ההיא במוכר שדותיו סתם:

such occupation confers a title of ownership. Now if you assume that the purchase [of a piece of land] becomes generally known, surely there can be no protest stronger than this, [that the son has sold the land]?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And if it is not a protest, the reason must be that it does not become generally known. ');">¹³</span> — R. Papa said: The case of which this passage speaks is where the son sells all his fields without specifying [any one in particular].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As in that case the occupier can plead that he understood that the sale did not include the field in question and therefore did not constitute a protest. But if he specifically sells that field, this constitutes a protest, because the sale is bound to come to the knowledge of the occupier, and the occupation therefore confers no title to ownership. ');">¹⁴</span>

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