Commentary for Bava Batra 141:10

המקדיש את השדה הקדיש וכו': אמר רב הונא אע"ג דאמור רבנן הקונה שני אילנות בתוך של חבירו הרי זה לא קנה קרקע מכר קרקע ושייר שני אילנות לפניו יש לו קרקע ואפילו לר"ע דאמר מוכר בעין יפה מוכר הני מילי גבי בור ודות דלא קא מכחשי בארעא אבל אילנות דקא מכחשי בארעא

A man gave instructions [saying], 'Give to so-and-so a room holding a hundred barrels.' It was found that the room [in question] would hold a hundred and twenty barrels. Mar Zutra [on hearing the case] said, He gave him [the space of] a hundred barrels and not of a hundred and twenty.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And therefore he acquires only that portion of the room which will hold a hundred barrels. ');">¹⁸</span> Said R. Ashi to him: Have we not learnt, THIS RULE APPLIES ONLY TO A VENDOR, BUT A DONOR IS PRESUMED TO MAKE ALL THESE PART OF THE GIFT, from which we infer that a donor is presumed to give in a liberal spirit?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'with a bounteous eye'. ');">¹⁹</span> So here [we say that] the donor gives in a liberal spirit.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And the whole room is given to the recipient. ');">²⁰</span> IF A MAN SANCTIFIES A FIELD HE SANCTIFIES etc. R. Huna said: Although the Rabbis have laid down that when a man buys two trees in another man's field he does not acquire any of the soil with them,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As he would if he bought three trees. V. infra 81a. ');">²¹</span> yet if a man sells a field and reserves to himself two trees, he retains some of the soil with them.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., the soil under the trunk. ');">²²</span> [This rule is valid] even according to R. Akiba who says that the vendor sells in a liberal spirit;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra 64b. ');">²³</span> [for] this applies only to a well and a cistern which do not exhaust the soil, but in the case of trees which do exhaust the soil,

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