Quotation for Bava Metzia 116:5
תניא ר' יהודה בן בתירא אומר אף המוכר סוס וסייף וחטיטום במלחמה אין להם אונאה מפני שיש בהן חיי נפש:
an animal or a pearl is not subject to overreaching, because one desires to match them.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' When a man possesses one ox, he may be very anxious to procure another of equal strength, because it is inconvenient to plough with two animals of dissimilar capacities. Therefore he may knowingly overpay, hence the law of overreaching does not apply. So with a pearl, if it exactly matches others in his possession. ');"><sup>5</sup></span>
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