Commentary for Bava Metzia 8:8

לא לעולם אימא לך שתים נמי פטור והאי דקתני שלש לאפוקי מדרשב"א דאמר מודה מקצת הטענה הוי וחייב קמ"ל דמשיב אבידה הוי ופטור

or because the written document has the effect of pledging the debtor's landed property [to the creditor,] and no oath is taken in a dispute connected with mortgaged land.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Seeing that 'two' is corroborated by the written document, no oath can be imposed, either in a case of denial or in one of admission, because the document puts the debtor's landed property under a bond, and, as explained in Shebu. 42b, no oath is administered in connection with mortgaged property. But when the debtor says 'three', the dispute about the remainder as well as the admission of the third sela' concern something that is not mentioned in the document, and which does not therefore affect the debtor's landed property. ');">⁸</span>

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