Mesorat%20hashas for Nedarim 177:8

<big><strong>מתני׳</strong></big> תשע נערות נדריהן קיימין בוגרת והיא יתומה נערה ובגרה והיא יתומה

'Now these are the vows,' is meant to extend [the law] to where the father delivered her to her [betrothed] husband's messengers, or where the father's agents delivered her to the messengers of the [betrothed] husband, [and it teaches] that the husband cannot annul [vows] made [by her] previously.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., vows made before her homecoming. Having passed out of her father's authority, (v. n. 2) she is her own mistress until she enters her husband's home, and if she vowed in the interval, he cannot annul. ');">¹³</span> <b><i>MISHNAH</i></b>. THERE ARE NINE MAIDENS WHOSE VOWS<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' 'Maidens' is not used here in the restricted sense of na'arah, but means girls and women in general who were betrothed while still in the stage of na'arah. ');">¹⁴</span> STAND:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., they cannot be annulled. ');">¹⁵</span> [i] A BOGERETH WHO [VOWED] AND IS AN ORPHAN;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The reference is to 'an orphan during her father's lifetime,' i.e., one who was married with nissu'in, and then widowed or divorced. Even if she is still a minor, her father no longer has any authority over her, so she is called 'an orphan during her father's lifetime.' ');">¹⁶</span> [ii] A MAIDEN [WHO VOWED] AND [THEN] BECAME A BOGERETH AND IS AN ORPHAN;

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