Commentary for Bava Kamma 68:9

ואומר שלם ישלם בעלים משלמין ואין בעלים נוטלין

[emphasising that] the offender could only have to pay but never to receive payment. Why that additional quotation?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., why is not the first objection sufficient? ');">¹⁷</span> — [Otherwise] you might have thought this principle to be confined only to a case where the plaintiff was the loser,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Of the ten zuz that make the carcass worth more than the ox while alive. ');">¹⁸</span>

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