Reference for Bava Batra 351:7

זמנין אמר רב אפילו קודם חיתום שטרות אינו גובה אלא מנכסים בני חורין

and [such a document entitles one to] collect from mortgaged property!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Git. 86a. Whether the document be a kethubah or (as has been explained in Git. 22b) a bond of indebtedness, from this it follows that, though no witnesses had signed the bond, the creditor is entitled to seize the debtor's mortgaged property if there were only witnesses testifying to the delivery to him of the bond; much more so when the bond had been endorsed in a court of law which has certainly more power than ordinary witnesses. How, then, could R. Johanan maintain that an endorsement by a court of a note-of hand does not entitle the creditor to the seizure of sold property? ');">¹³</span> — There<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The Mishnah of Gittin. ');">¹⁴</span>

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