Commentary for Yevamot 235:10

ואי איתמר בהא בהא קאמר רבי עקיבא אבל בהך אימא מודה ליה לרבי טרפון צריכא

since the grievance is personal.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The deprivation of marital intercourse caused by a rival. Only 10 such circumstances, it is possible, did R. Tarfon discredit the evidence of a rival who might indeed be actuated by malice. ');">³²</span> but that in respect of a mother-in-law, the grievance against whom is merely general,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'things in the world'. ');">³³</span> he agrees with N. Akiba.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That a daughter-in-law need not be suspected of deliberate lying because of some general grievance against her mother-in-law; and that consequently. though her evidence is not accepted in respect of relaxing the laws of marriage. it may be accepted in respect of enforcing the laws of terumah. ');">³⁴</span> And had the latter only been stated it might have been assumed that R. Akiba maintained [his view] there only, but that in the former case he agrees with R. Tarfon. [Hence both statements were] necessary.

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