Mesorat%20hashas for Yevamot 178:10

קתני מיהת יורשה והא הכא דמדאורייתא אבוה ירית לה ומדרבנן ירית לה בעל הפקר ב"ד היה הפקר

— Read, 'When she attains to womanhood and enters the bridal chamber', and it is this that Beth Shammai said to Beth Hillel: In respect of your statement, 'When she enters the bridal chamber', it is only when she has attained womanhood that the bridal chamber is effective, but otherwise the bridal chamber alone is of no avail. 'R. Eliezer said: When connubial intercourse has taken place'. But, surely, R. Eliezer said that the act of a minor has no legal force!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Infra 107b, 108a, Keth. 101b. ');">²⁸</span> — Read, 'After she has grown up and connubial intercourse has taken place'.) At all events it was here stated, 'He<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The husband. ');">²⁹</span> is entitled to be her heir'; but, surely, by Pentateuchal law it is her father<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' (That is his legal heir (Rashi). Since the reference here is to a fatherless girl who was given in marriage by her mother or brothers. Such a marriage is not valid by Pentateuchal law which vests the right of giving a minor girl in marriage only in the father]. ');">³⁰</span>

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