Commentary for Bava Kamma 93:5

וכן אתה מוצא בקוטע יד עבדו של חבירו וכן אתה מוצא במזיק שדה של חבירו

you will be found to be making the defendant suffer unduly. The same method is followed in the case of the cutting off the hand of a neighbour's slave;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [You do not value the hand separately, viz., what price a master would in the first instance be willing to take for depriving his slave of the use of his hand; but the difference in the value of a slave who had his hand cut off — a much smaller price.] ');">⁵</span>

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