Commentary for Bava Batra 341:1

בשלמא בי דינא אלימי לאפקועי ממונא אלא עדים שעשו שליחותן חוזרין ועושין שליחותן

[In the case of] a court of law, one can well understand,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Why it may tear up a deed and insert its date in the one given in exchange. ');">¹</span> because it has the power and authority to confiscate<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'to take Out'. ');">²</span> money;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A deed entitled its holder to seize any real estate which the debtor had sold to mortgaged after, but not before the date of the deed. Consequently. when a now deed is written for the balance of a debt in exchange for the original deed, the creditor should not be entitled to seize any property that was sold between the date of the original and that of the new deed. A court of law, however, having the right to confiscate any property. Is also empowered to enter in the second deed the date of the original and thus to subject to the creditor's seizure property to which he would not otherwise have been entitled. ');">³</span>

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