Mesorat%20hashas for Bava Batra 257:4

כי אתא רב דימי אמר רבי יוחנן תנתן שדה פלונית לפלוני ויירשה זו היא מתנה בתחלה יירשה ותנתן לו זו היא מתנה בסוף יירשה ותנתן לו ויירשה זו היא מתנה באמצע

[or] one field and two persons.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If the testator said, e.g., that the half of the field shall be inherited by one person and the other half shall be taken as a gift by another, the latter acquires possession of his share, but the former does not, ');">¹⁰</span> R. Eleazar said: ['The same law applies] even [to the case of] one person and two fields [or] one field and two persons'. [The law,]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This is a Talmudic comment, nad does not belong to R. Eleazar's statement (Rashb.). ');">¹¹</span> however, [is] not [applicable] in [the case of] two fields and two persons.

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