Commentary for Bava Batra 170:1

מאי לאו ברה"ר ממש לא סימטא והא דומיא דחצר שאינה של שניהם קתני

Does not this mean an actual reshuth harabbim?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' How, then, could R. Samuel, and R. Abbahu in the name of R. Johanan, state that one's vessel cannot acquire ownership in reshuth harabbim? ');">¹</span> — No; [it means] an alley. But has it not been treated as being in a similar category to that of a courtyard which belongs to neither of them?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' But to a third party; while an alley is regarded as the territory of any buyer and seller who happen to be there. ');">²</span> — The [phrase], 'courtyard which belongs to neither of them', also signifies that [the court] is neither in the entire ownership of the one nor in the entire ownership of the other; but in the joint ownership of the two.

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