Commentary for Bava Batra 311:9

והלכתא כמר זוטרא והלכתא כאמימר והלכתא כרב נחמן אמר שמואל בכולהו:

hence it was necessary to teach us that [the law is] not in accordance with [the view of] R. Judah.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' But in accordance with the first Tanna (Nid. 52a) that her right ceases with the growth of the two hairs. ');">²⁴</span> 'And [in respect of] the sale of the estate of his father, until he becomes twenty years of age' [had to be taught] in order to exclude [the view] of him who said [the youth need only be] eighteen years of age. The law [is that during the] 'intervening period'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The twentieth year of age according to one authority; the eighteenth, according to another. ');">²⁵</span>

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