Commentary for Bava Metzia 205:1

שכיר בזמנו נשבע ונוטל

A hired labourer [engaged for a period], on the expiration of his term swears and is paid.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Shebu. 45b; infra 111a. If there is a dispute between him and the employer on the last day, the latter alleging that he has already paid him, the former swears that he was not paid, and receives his wages. Though it is a general rule that the defendant swears to be free from payment (v. p. 572, n. 6), the Rabbis made an exception in this case, because an employer, busy with his workers, may very easily imagine that he has paid one instead of another. ');">¹</span>

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