Commentary for Bava Batra 311:6

ולמיאונין לאפוקי מדרבי יהודה דאמר עד שירבה שחור קא משמע לן דלא כרבי יהודה

— This [law] is required only [in the case] of a youth who married his dead brother's widow.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In such a case no formal betrothal is necessary. A boy who is over nine years of age becomes the legal husband of his dead brother's wife by the mere act of coition. If he desires, subsequently, to divorce her he must undergo an examination for signs of maturity. ');">¹⁶</span> For we learnt: [If] a boy of the age of nine years and a day had connexion with his sister-in-law,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Whose husband had died childless. ');">¹⁷</span> he has acquired her [as wife] and may not divorce her until he had attained [legal] age.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Nid. 45a; Sanh. 55b. ');">¹⁸</span>

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