Quoting%20commentary for Kiddushin 99:14

וצריכא דאי אשמעינן גבי קידושין במקום דלקורבה קאתי בהאי אתרא רחמו לי ולא ממלי מילי עלוי בהאי אתרא סנו לי ממלי מילי עלוי אבל גבי גיטין דלרחוקה קאתי אימר לא איכפת ליה

Others state [that R'Ashi declared]: Had he desired, could he have not gone?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Surely he could (Rashi) - hence the sale stands. [Others: (even) if he desires he cannot go. Hence the sale is null. V, Joseph Karo on Tur. H.M. 206, and commentaries a.l.]');">¹⁶</span> Wherein do they differ? - They differ where an impediment cropped up on the road.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' E.g., it became infested with highwaymen. According to the first version, R. Ashi declared that he nevertheless could have gone, e.g., by joining a large company of travellers; hence the sale stands. But according to the second version, 'could he have not gone,' it is implied that there was nothing to prevent him. Here, however, there was, and so the sale is null.');">¹⁷</span>

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