Halakhah for Bava Batra 154:2
אגב שאני דהא מטבע דלא ניקני בחליפין ואגב ארעא ניקני
And this accords with what we have learned, that movable property<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'property which has no secure foundation', from which debtors cannot collect their debts. ');"><sup>4</sup></span> may be acquired with landed property<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'property which has a secure foundation, I.e., real estate which cannot be moved and is consequently always at the disposal of the creditor or anyone having a rightful claim to it. ');"><sup>5</sup></span> by means of money,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Paid for the land. ');"><sup>6</sup></span>
Sefer HaChinukh
The text of a contract of selling an obligation: I, x, sell you, y, the contract of the debt of z, in as z is in debt to me, as he is holding such and such; and you will acquire [the obligation] and all that is liened to it, by the force of this contract and the delivery of the contract. And if the contract is not in their hands, he gives over his possession of it, by way of its attachment to four ells of land. And [about] any oral contract, they, may their memory be blessed, said (Kiddushin 48a and see Tosafot on Bava Batra 77b:1, s.v. Rav Pappa) that it can only be acquired in the presence of the three of them (the creditor, the borrower and the purchaser of the obligation). And this is from the three things that they, may their memory be blessed, said (Gittin 14a) that they are traditional laws without an explanation.
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