Commentary for Shabbat 261:2

אפשר דמבטלי ליה רשותא דכולהו לגבי חד סוף סוף בית איכא בתים ליכא

so we have courtyards but not houses? — They can all renounce<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'annul'. ');">⁴</span> their rights in favour of one.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The tenants of all the houses save one can renounce their rights in the courtyard in his favour; the courtyard is then his, and he may carry from his house into it. ');">⁵</span> But even so, we have a house, but not houses?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Whereas Rab needs at least two houses, v. p, 654, n. 8. ');">⁶</span>

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