Midrash for Chullin 267:17
לא דכולי עלמא אית להו דרב חסדא והכא במתנות כהונה נגזלות קא מיפלגי
or the other.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., the one who later consumed the article; for so long as the owner has not given up hope of recovering it it is deemed to be his property wherever it happens to be, so that the one who consumed it also committed an act of theft.');"><sup>13</sup></span>
Sifrei Devarim
"from the slaughterers of the slaughtering": The time of the slaughtering is the criterion. From here they ruled: If a stranger converted and he had a cow — If it were slaughtered before he converted, he is exempt (from priestly gifts); if after he converted, he is liable. If the matter is in doubt (safek), he is exempt, and "the burden of the proof is upon him who would remove (the object) from his neighbor's domain.
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