Commentary for Bava Kamma 176:9
אלמא קסבר קנין פירות לאו כקנין הגוף דמי וכי קא זבין דידיה קא זבין
from which it follows that when the son sold the estate [during the lifetime of his father] he was disposing of a thing not belonging to him.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For since the father still had for life the right to usufruct he was for the time being the legal owner of the very substance of the estate, though the son had the reversionary right. ');"><sup>9</sup></span>
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