Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Halakhah for Bava Kamma 205:7

אמרי התם אמנה הואי ולא משכיה רב כהנא לכיתנא ורב לטעמיה דאמר רב עושין אמנה בפירות ואין עושין אמנה בדמים:

IF HE REFUNDED TO HIM THE PRINCIPAL AND TOOK AN OATH<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' v. p. 598. n. 11. ');"><sup>21</sup></span> REGARDING THE FIFTH,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. V, 24. ');"><sup>18</sup></span> HE WOULD HAVE TO PAY HIM A FIFTH ON TOP OF THE FIFTH AND SO ON UNTIL THE PRINCIPAL BECOMES REDUCED TO LESS THAN THE VALUE OF A <i>PERUTAH</i>. SO ALSO IS THE CASE REGARDING A DEPOSIT, AS IT IS STATED: IN THAT WHICH WAS DELIVERED HIM TO KEEP, OR IN FELLOWSHIP, OR IN A THING TAKEN AWAY BY VIOLENCE, OR HATH DECEIVED HIS NEIGHBOUR, OR HATH FOUND THAT WHICH WAS LOST AND LIETH CONCERNING IT AND SWEARETH FALSELY,<a rel="footnote" href="#103b_1"><sup>1</sup></a> HE HAS TO PAY THE PRINCIPAL AND THE FIFTH AND BRING A TRESPASS OFFERING.<a rel="footnote" href="#103b_2"><sup>2</sup></a>

Sefer HaChinukh

And the laws of the theft as to how far he is to burden himself to return it to its owners is like that which our Rabbis, may their memory be blessed, said (Bava Kamma 103a) that one who robs the worth of a perutah from his fellow is obligated to bring it after him, even to Medea - meaning to say to a far place. But in order to lighten his burden if the expense [to do this] is great, our Rabbis, may their memory be blessed, said that he leave it with the court and they know that this money is for x, and they give it to him when he happens by.
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