Mesorat%20hashas for Kiddushin 81:12

ואלא הא דתנן האומר לשלוחו צא תרום תורם כדעת בעל הבית ואם אינו יודע דעת בעל הבית תורם בבינונית אחד מחמשים

she find no favour in his eyes. then he shall write her a bill of divorcement.] and he shall send [her of his house]:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Deut. XXIV, 1. vjka');">¹¹</span> this teaches that he may appoint an agent; then she shall send:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Disregarding the mappik, which makes we-shillehah () the third pers. masc. with the pronominal suffix, and reading it as third pers. fem.');">¹²</span> this teaches that she may appoint an agent; then he shall send, then he shall send her:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' 'Send' is stated twice, in vv. 1 and 3.');">¹³</span> this teaches that the agent can appoint an agent.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Rashi: these deductions are made because Scripture should have written, then he shall divorce. 'Send' intimates that the husband or wife can send, i.e., appoint a person to act on their behalf.');">¹⁴</span> Now, we have thus found [the principle of agency] in divorce: how do we know it in respect to kiddushin? And should you answer that it is derived from divorce [by analogy]; [I would answer] as for divorce, [agency may operate] because it can take place against her [the wife's] consent?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' But v. p. 35, n. 2.');">¹⁵</span> - Scripture saith, then she shall depart. and she shall be [another man's wife], thus assimilating marriage to divorce; just a an agent may be appointed for divorce, so may one be appointed for marriage. Now, as to what we learnt: If one instructs his agent.' Go forth and separate [terumah]': he must separate according to the owner's intentions;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' By Biblical law there is no fixed standard for terumah. The Rabbis, however, ruled that on the average it is one fiftieth of the crops: a generous man gives one fortieth, and a mean person not less than one sixtieth.');">¹⁶</span> and if he does not know the owner's intentions, he must make an average separation, [viz. ,] one-fiftieth.

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