Commentary for Bava Kamma 66:17

דתניא חי אין לי אלא חי שחטו מנין ת"ל ומכרו את השור מ"מ

But in the case of <i>Mu'ad</i> doing damage there is no difference whether the case had already been brought into Court or whether it had not yet come into Court; if it has been sold, the sale is valid; if consecrated, the consecration holds good; if slaughtered and given away as a gift, what has been done is legally effective, where [other] creditors have stepped in and distrained on the ox, no matter whether the debt had been contracted before the goring took place or whether the goring had taken place before the debt was incurred, the distraint is legally effective, since the compensation is paid out of the best of the general estate [of the defendant].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. Tosef. B.K. V. ');">¹⁶</span>

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