Commentary for Shevuot 64:14

מהו דתימא ה"מ כפירה וכפירה אבל כפירה והודאה אימא לא קמ"ל:

All agree in [the case of] a witness of death that he is exempt', - if he told it to her,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That he knows her husband has died abroad; but when she adjured him to give evidence before the Beth Din, he denied the knowledge. He is not liable, because she can go to the Beth Din herself, and say her husband is dead, and requires no witness. He has therefore not occasioned any monetary loss to her by withholding his evidence, for she is believed, and can obtain her kethubah from the heirs.');">¹³</span> and did not tell it to the Beth Din; for we learnt: A woman who said, 'My husband died', may remarry; 'my husband died', marries her brother-in-law.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If her husband died without issue; Deut. XXV, 5.');">¹⁴</span>

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