Mesorat%20hashas for Bava Metzia 220:13

<big><strong>גמ׳</strong></big> ת"ר מנין לשכיר יום שגובה כל הלילה ת"ל (ויקרא יט, יג) לא תלין פעולת שכיר אתך עד בקר ומנין לשכיר לילה שגובה כל היום שנאמר (דברים כד, טו) ביומו תתן שכרו

Surely cases arose daily where Samuel ordered distraint even of the improvement touching the carriers! — There is no difficulty: in one case, the value of the land and its improvement is claimed; in the other, the value of the land and its improvement is not claimed. But where the value of the land and its improvement is not claimed, [you say that] he must pay the vendee money [for his improvements] and can dismiss him. Now, that agrees well with the view that [even] if the vendee has money, he cannot pay off the creditor. But on the view that he can,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Just as the original debtor. ');">¹²</span>

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