Commentary for Bava Batra 345:14

נמצא לאחד בין שטרותיו שטרו של יוסף בן שמעון פרוע שטרות שניהם פרועין וכו': טעמא דנמצא הא לא נמצא מצי מפיק והאנן ולא אחר יכול להוציא עליהן שטר חוב תנן

They differ on [the question whether] a bond [may] be written for a borrower though the creditor be not with him. Our Tanna<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Of our Mishnah; and so the Tanna of the previously cited Baraitha. ');">⁴⁰</span> holds [that] a bond may be written for a borrower although the creditor be not with him. [Consequently it may] sometimes [happen] that one<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Of the two Josephs. ');">⁴¹</span> would go to a scribe and witnesses and tell them, 'Write for me a bond because I intend borrowing [money] from my friend Joseph son of Simeon'; and, after they had written and signed [it] for him, he would take hold of it and demand from him,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' His namesake whose name would appear in the bond as the debtor. ');">⁴²</span>

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