Commentary for Bava Batra 257:10

אמוראי נינהו ואליבא דרבי יוחנן

unless [the testator] had said, 'Let X and Y inherit this and that particular field, which I had assigned to them as a gift, so that they may inherit them'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Both acquire possession of the respective fields, because the testator had used the expression, 'I had assigned to them as a gift', implying that the gift was made before it was assigned as 'inheritance' (R. Gersh.). ');">²⁵</span> [The following Amoraim are] in [the same] dispute [as that of those mentioned]. R. Hamnuna said: [The law that possession<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Where the expression of 'gift' was used with that of 'inheritance'. ');">²⁶</span> is acquired], was only taught [in the case of] one person and one field, but not [in the case of] one person and two fields [or] one field and two persons.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This is in agreement with the statement of R. Dimi in the name of R. Johanan, supra. ');">²⁷</span>

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