Quoting%20commentary for Bava Kamma 114:15

אמרי הכי השתא אימור דאמר רב התם היה לה שלא תאכל היכא דאיתזקא היא דמצי א"ל מריה דפירי לא משלמנא היה לה שלא תאכל לאזוקי היא אחריני דפטירה לשלומי מי אמר

this shows that had he wished he could have freed himself by resorting to the oath. Under what circumstances [could this be so]? Where, for instance, he advances the plea that an armed malefactor [took it].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. p. 332, n. 5. ');">²⁴</span> Now seeing that it says, '… and it so happened that the thief was [subsequently] traced, he should pay the double payment to the hirer',<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For by offering to pay the value of the cow he acquired title to all possible payments with reference to it. ');">²⁵</span>

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