Commentary for Shevuot 92:1

ואמר לקוחין הן בידי אינו נאמן ולא אמרן אלא בעל הבית שאינו עשוי למכור כליו אבל בעל הבית העשוי למכור את כליו נאמן ושאין עשוי למכור את כליו נמי לא אמרן אלא דברים שאין דרכן להטמין אבל דברים שדרכן להטמין נאמן

and said, 'I bought them,'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And the householder said he lent them to him.');">¹</span> he is not believed.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The intruder is not believed, even if he desires to take an oath; but the householder takes a consuetudinary oath that he did not sell them or give them to him, and recovers the articles; v. Maim., Yad, To'en we-Nite'am, IX, 4.');">²</span> And we do not say this, except in the case of a householder who does not usually sell his [household] articles; but in the case of a householder who sometimes sells his articles, he is believed.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The intruder is believed (with a consuetudinary oath) that he bought them.');">³</span> And [in the case of a householder] who does not usually sell his household articles we also do not say [that the intruder is not believed] except [with regard to] articles it is not usual to hide,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Articles which one is not ashamed to carry openly in the street. This person hid them, apparently because he was ashamed to have to borrow them; if he had really bought them, as he states, he would not have been ashamed to carry them openly.');">⁴</span>

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