Commentary for Gittin 75:14

היכי דמי אי דמצו פרקי לה למה לי גיטא דחירותא אי דלא מצו פרקי לה כי שדר לה גיטא דחירותא מאי הוי

but even if you hold with the Rabbis [you may accept her], because we have ransomed her as a slave. They thought that he had not yet given up hope [of recovering her], but this was not correct, as he had given up hope [of recovering her], and Samuel not only refrained from making her a slave again but he did not even require her to obtain a deed of emancipation. In this he followed his own maxim that 'if a man declares his slave common property,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which is equivalent to giving up hope of recovery. ');">¹³</span>

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