Commentary for Bava Kamma 179:10

כמאן אזלא הא דאמר אמימר איש ואשה שמכרו בנכסי מלוג לא עשו ולא כלום כמאן כרבי אליעזר

would be subject to the right of "a day or two": the vendor because the slave was still "under" him and the purchaser because the slave was already "his money",'for he was in doubt whether a right to a usufruct should amount to a right to the very substance or should not amount to a right to the very substance, and, as is well known, a doubt in capital charges should always be for the benefit of the accused.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' B.B. 50b; Sanh. 79a also supra p. 253. ');">¹²</span>

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