Commentary for Bava Kamma 191:2

אמר ליה הניחא למאן דאמר אי אית ליה זוזי ללוקח לא מצי מסלק ליה לבעל חוב שפיר אלא למ"ד אי אית ליה זוזי ללוקח מצי מסלק ליה לבעל חוב לימא ליה אי הוו לי זוזי הוה מסלקינא לך מכוליה ארעא השתא הב לי גריוא דארעא שיעור שבחאי

that [even] if the purchaser possesses money he has no right to bar the creditor from land by paying in specie, your argument would be sound, but according to the view that a purchaser possessing money can bar the creditor from the field by paying him in specie, why should he not say to the creditor, 'If I had had money, I would surely have been able to bar you from the whole field [by paying you in specie]; now also therefore I am entitled to be left with a griva<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The size of a field needed for a se'ah of seed. ');">³</span> of land corresponding to the value of my amelioration'?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Why then should the creditor distrain on the whole field together with the amelioration? ');">⁴</span>

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