Mesorat%20hashas for Zevachim 205:7

כדאמר רבא העולה עולה ראשונה ה"נ העולה עולה ראשונה

What is meant by, 'This excludes a burnt-offering of hekdesh? - Said R'Hiyya B'Joseph: It excludes a burnt-offering derived from 'left-overs'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' When a guilt-offering cannot be sacrificed, e.g., its owner died, it is left to graze until it is blemished. Then it is redeemed, and a burnt-offering is purchased with the redemption-money. This burnt-offering is sacrificed when there is a scarcity of other sacrifices (hence it was known as the sacrifice for 'the altar's summer fruit') , and ranks as a public sacrifice; hence it was not 'any man's burnt-offering', and its skin did not belong to the priests.');">⁷</span> That is well on the view that 'left-overs were devoted to public sacrifices; but what can be said on the view that 'leftovers' were devoted to private sacrifices?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' E.g., the heir of the dead man would bring it as a private sacrifice: why then should the skin not belong to the priest?');">⁸</span>

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