Commentary for Bava Batra 323:1

אמר רב עמרם לפי שאין למדין משיטה אחרונה

— R. Amram said: Because the last line cannot be taken as a determining factor.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., '(people) do not learn from the last line'. Witnesses do not as a rule take care to write their signatures immediately below the text of the deed, and usually leave some space between their signatures and the text. As this space might be used by the unscrupulous for the insertion, in his own interests, of an unauthorised line, it has been provided that nothing essential that has not already appeared in the text of the deed may appear in its last line. Consequently, should this line ever contain a vital point not recorded in the text, it would immediately be detected as spurious. ');">¹</span>

Explore commentary for Bava Batra 323:1. In-depth commentary and analysis from classical Jewish sources.