Midrash for Chullin 259:26
(דברים יח, ג) וזה יהיה משפט הכהנים זה אין מידי אחרינא לא
but without it I should have argued that consecrated animals are subject to these dues; but surely the argument [of the Mishnah] can be refuted thus: That is so<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Viz., that they are subject to the priestly dues.');"><sup>22</sup></span>
Sifrei Devarim
(Devarim 18:3) "And this shall be the judgment of the Cohanim": We are hereby taught that the priestly gifts (shoulder, cheeks, and maw) are "law" (to the end of extracting them by court order from a thief who stole them from a Cohein who had acquired them from hefker [ownerless property]).
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