Quoting%20commentary for Bava Batra 328:7

ההוא שטרא דהוה כתב ביה בשנת פלוני ארכן א"ר חנינא בדק אימתי עמד ארכן בארכנותיה

of the archon<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. [G]. ');">²¹</span> X'. Said R. Hanina: Let enquiry be made when [that] archon assumed office.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'when archon stood in his archonship'; and that year is to be regarded as the date of the document. If such a deed relates to a loan, the creditor is entitled to seize any of the creditor's lands that were sold or mortgaged after that date. ');">²²</span> Might he [not on that date] have been in office for some years?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'that his reign was long'. ');">²³</span> — R. Hoshaia replied, 'Such is the practice of this nation: [In the] first year they call him, "archon", [in the] second they call him, digon.'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [G] (born a second time), 'second term in office', iterum consul; the deed, since the title of 'archon' was used in it, must have been written in his first year of office. ');">²⁴</span>

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