Reference for Bava Kamma 147:4

אלא פשיטא דקא מודו כולהו בחבלא

— It must therefore deal with a case where he had already made his appearance before the Court.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And he was ordered to let the slave go free on the strength of some testimony by earlier witnesses, without any direction as to any payment to be made to the slave who now seeks to recover from the master compensation for the eye or tooth. ');">⁴</span>

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