Commentary for Bava Metzia 29:22

והא שמואל במאי מוקים לה אי בלוקח מגזלן קשיא רישא דאמר שמואל לוקח מגזלן לית ליה שבחא אי בבעל חוב קשיא רישא וסיפא דאמר שמואל בעל חוב גובה את השבח

— [The former] answered: Yes, it undoubtedly does.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'It is better and better.' The creditor has no right to inflict a loss upon the recipient of the gift by taking away the improvement made by the recipient. As the recipient cannot reclaim the loss from the donor, whose debt is the cause of the creditor's action against the recipient of the gift, there is no reason why the latter should lose more than the value of the gift itself, which was originally accepted by the creditor as security for his loan. ');">²¹</span>

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