Commentary for Bava Kamma 68:7

אמרת היכן מצינו מזיק נשכר שזה נשכר ואומר (שמות כא, לו) שלם ישלם בעלים משלמין ואין בעלים נוטלין

And it is just on account of this view that a difficulty was felt by R. Judah: Now that you say that the Divine Law is lenient to the defendant, allowing him to share in the increase [of the value of the carcass], you might then presume that where an ox of the value of five <i>sela'</i> [i.e. twenty <i>zuz</i>] gored an ox of the value of a <i>maneh</i> [a hundred <i>zuz</i>] and the carcass was valued at fifty <i>zuz</i>, one party would take half of the living ox<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Amounting to ten zuz. ');">¹³</span> together with half of the dead ox<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That would amount to another twenty-five zuz. ');">¹⁴</span>

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