Mesorat%20hashas for Bava Kamma 99:1

בבור ברשותו ר"ע סבר בור ברשותו נמי חייב דכתיב (שמות כא, לד) בעל הבור בבור דאית ליה בעלים קאמר רחמנא

only in regard to a pit on his own premises. R. Akiba maintains that a pit in his own premises should also involve liability, since it says, The owner of the pit,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex. XXI, 34 ');">¹</span> which shows that the Divine Law is speaking of a pit which has an owner; R. Ishmael on the other hand maintaining that this simply refers to the perpetrator of the nuisance.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' But did not mean the legal owner of it. ');">²</span>

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