Commentary for Bava Kamma 68:11

אית ליה לר"י פחת שפחתה מיתה מחצין בחי

But R. Aha b. Tahlifa said to Raba: If so [that the principle to compensate by half for the decrease in value brought about by the death is maintained only by R. Meir], will it not be found that according to R. Judah <i>Tam</i> will involve the payment of more than half damages,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As e.g.. where an ox of the value of fifty zuz gored another's ox of the value of forty zuz and the carcass was worth twenty zuz, in which case the actual damage amounted to twenty zuz, half of which would be ten zuz, whereas if the plaintiff will get half of the living ox and half of the dead ox he shall be in receipt for damages, in addition to the value of the carcass, not of ten but of fifteen zuz. ');">¹⁹</span> whereas the Torah [emphatically] stated, <i>And they shall sell the live ox and divide the money of it</i>? — [No;] R. Judah also holds that the decrease in value brought about by the death will be [compensated] by half in the body of the living ox.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The sum total received by the plaintiff will therefore never be more than half of the actual loss sustained by him after allowing him, of course, the full value of the carcass of his ox. ');">²⁰</span>

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