Commentary for Bava Batra 73:1

לאו מי אמר ר' ישמעאל חד פירא הוי חזקה לכולהו פירי הכא נמי הני הוו חזקה להני והני הוו חזקה להני

For did not R. Ishmael lay down that one kind of crop confers a presumptive title to the whole field? So here, one set of ten trees confers a presumptive title to the others, and vice versa.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'these … to these and these … to these.' ');">¹</span> This, however, is only the case if the other twenty did not produce [in the other two years]; for if they did produce and he did not take the produce, he obtains no <i>hazakah</i>. And in any case [it is necessary that the trees of which he does take the produce] should be spread about the field.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'be divided' (the fruits between the various sets of trees). Because if he takes the produce of ten in one beth se'ah, this is counted as a field by itself, and confers no right to the rest. ');">²</span>

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