Commentary for Gittin 63:12

אמר אביי בטל

but if he said, 'It is canceled [batel],' 'it is no gift', his words have effect. This shows, does it not, that batel means 'cancelled from the outset'?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [And therefore the gift had never passed into possession. Applying this mutatis mutandis in the case of a Get, batel should have no effect, because it is a wrong description of the character of the Get]. ');">¹¹</span> — Abaye replied: The expression batel

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