Quoting%20commentary for Ketubot 65:1

חובל בחבירו נמי א"כ בטלת (דברים כה, ג) לא יוסיף פן יוסיף עדים זוממין נמי א"כ בטלת (דברים כה, ב) והיה אם בן הכות הרשע אלא עדים זוממין אפשר לקיומה בבן גרושה ובן חלוצה חובל בחבירו נמי איכא לקיומה כגון שהכהו הכאה שאין בה שוה פרוטה

[The same could be said] about one who injures another: If so you would abolish [the lashes accorded to one who transgresses], “He shall not exceed, lest, if he should exceed” (Deuteronomy 25:3). [And the same could be said of] plotting witnesses: If so you would abolish [the lashes accorded to one who transgresses]: “Then it shall be, if the guilty man deserve to be beaten” (Deuteronomy 25:2). Rather [lashing for] plotting witnesses could be fulfilled when [the witnesses testified falsely about someone that he was] the son of a divorced woman or the son of a halutzah. [Similarly in the case of] one who injured another, it could be fulfilled when he struck him a blow for which no perutah can be claimed as damages.

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