Halakhah for Ketubot 39:9

ת"ר כותב אדם עדותו על השטר ומעיד עליה אפילו לאחר כמה שנים אמר רב הונא והוא שזוכרה מעצמו רבי יוחנן אמר אע"פ שאין זוכרה מעצמו אמר רבה ש"מ מדרבי יוחנן הני בי תרי דידעי סהדותא ומנשי חד מנייהו מדכר חד לחבריה

Our Rabbis taught: A person may write [down] his testimony in a document and may through it give evidence even after some years. Huna said: Only when he remembers it by himself.Only when he remembers it by himself. Yohanan said: Even if he does not remember it by himself. Rabbah said: Learn from [the words of] R. Yohanan [the following]: These two people who know evidence and one of them has forgotten it, the other one may remind him of it.

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