Quotation for Shabbat 186:4

אמר רב נחמן בר יצחק אף אנן נמי תנינא צבי שנכנס לבית ונעל אחד בפניו חייב נעלו שנים פטורין לא יכול אחד לנעול ונעלו שנים חייבים ואמאי ליבעי שיעור צידה לזה ושיעור צידה לזה לאו משום דאמרינן שיעור אחד לכולם אמר רבינא אף אנן נמי תנינא השותפין שגנבו וטבחו חייבין ואמאי ליבעי שיעור טביחה לזה ושיעור טביחה לזה לאו משום דאמרינן שיעור אחד לכולם

But why so: let the standard of gonorrhoea be necessary for each?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' 'The standard of gonorrhoea' is that a whole zab rests on an article-then it is unclean. Then here too four zabim should be lying on the bed for the four cloths to be defiled. ');">7 Hence it must surely be because we say, One standard [suffices] for all. R. Nahman b. Isaac said, We too learnt thus: If a deer enters a house and one person locks [it] before him,8

Mishnah Zavim

If he sat on a bed and there were four cloaks under the four legs of the bed, all become unclean, since the bed cannot stand on three legs; But Rabbi Shimon declares them clean. If he rode on a beast and there were four cloaks under the legs of the beast, they are clean, since the beast can stand upon three legs. If there was one cloak under its two forelegs or its two hindlegs, or under a foreleg and a hindleg, it becomes unclean. Rabbi Yose says: a horse conveys uncleanness through its hindlegs and a donkey through its forelegs, since a horse leans upon its hindlegs and a donkey upon its forelegs. If he sat on a beam of an olive-press, the vessels in the olive-press receptacle are unclean. [If he sat] on a clothing press, the garments beneath it are clean. Rabbi Nehemiah declares them unclean.

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