Commentary for Bava Metzia 159:7

<big><strong>גמ׳</strong></big> איתמר אביי אמר קשה כמשאוי תנן רבא אמר קשה למשאוי תנן אביי אמר קשה כמשאוי תנן נפחא כי תקלא ואי מוסיף שלשה קבין חייב רבא אמר קשה למשאוי תנן תקלא כי תקלא ונפחא הוי תוספת

R. Johanan said: If one sold a cow to his neighbour and informed him, 'This cow is a butter, a biter, a habitual kicker, and prone to break down [under a load],' and it possessed one of these defects, which he inserted amongst the other blemishes [of which it was free], it is a sale in error.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which the purchaser can cancel. For the vendor, in enumerating a string of defects, which the buyer himself sees are absent, wishes him to assume that the one it actually has is also absent. ');">⁶</span>

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