Quoting%20commentary for Bava Batra 299:9

ואמר רב דימי בר יוסף אמר רבי אלעזר עשו מטלטלין שיור אצל עבד ולא עשו מטלטלין שיור אצל כתובה ואמר ליה רבא לרב נחמן מאי טעמא עבדא מטלטלא הוא ומטלטלא למטלטלא הוי שיור וכתובת אשה מקרקעא הוא ומטלטלא למקרקעא לא הוי שיור

[that slaves] are like real estate [but that] real estate that moves is different from real estate that does not move.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hence slaves who can move about could not have been in the mind of the person who sold 'a town' that cannot move. In other cases, however. where no particular kind of real estate was mentioned, slaves also may have been included, while in the ease where only 'movables' were specified, slaves may have been excluded. ');">³⁹</span> Rabina said to R. Ashi, Come and hear:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra 149b, for notes on the following citation. ');">⁴⁰</span> If one gave all his property to his slave, in writing, [the latter] goes forth [as] a free man. [If] he left [for himself] any land whatsoever [the slave] does not go forth [as] a free man. R. Simeon said: [The slave] is always free unless [the master] said, 'All my possessions are given to my slave X, except a ten thousandth part of them'. And R. Dimi b. Joseph said in the name of R. Eleazar: Movables in the case of a slave are regarded as a reservation,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As the slave does not gain his freedom where his master has reserved some real estate so he does not gain his freedom when his master reserved some movables. ');">⁴¹</span> but movables in the case of a <i>kethubah</i> are not regarded as a reservation.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' v. p. 647. n. 8. ');">⁴²</span> And Raba asked R. Nahman, 'What is the reason?' [To which the latter replied.] 'A slave is [regarded as] movables, and [in the case of] movables,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., when the master reserved for himself 'any movables' whatsoever. ');">⁴³</span> movables<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Slaves. ');">⁴⁴</span> are regarded as a reservation; the <i>kethubah</i> of a woman, however, is [payable from] real estate,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A woman can collect her kethubah from real estate only (v. infra 150b) and not from movable objects. ');">⁴⁵</span> and [in the case] of real estate, movables<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Slaves. ');">⁴⁴</span> [are] not [regarded as] a reservation.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' It has thus been proved from R. Nahman's statement that a slave is regarded as movables; and not as real estate. ');">⁴⁶</span>

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