Mesorat%20hashas for Eruvin 63:3

והרחוקים מותרים מחצות היום ואילך והא חדש דאורייתא הוא וקתני הרחוקים מותרין מחצות היום ואילך לאו משום חזקה שליח עושה שליחותו

Is not this due to the legal presumption that an agent carries out his mission?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Obviously it is. The priests being the agents of the people are presumed to have attended to their duty and to have done it before half of the day had passed.');">⁶</span> And R'Nahman?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' How, in view of the ruling cited, can he maintain that in respect of a Pentateuchal law there is no legal presumption that all agent carries out his mission?');">⁷</span> - There [the presumption is justified] for the reason stated:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'as it was taught'.');">⁸</span> Because it is known that Beth din would not shirk their duty.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'be lazy about it'. This, therefore, is no proof that legal presumption is justified in the case of an ordinary agent.');">⁹</span>

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