Reference for Bava Kamma 28:23
סיפא אצטריך ליה
— The text therefore excepts a Court of laymen.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' IN THE PRESENCE OF THE COURT does not refer to payment in kind but to the valuation which has to be made by qualified judges, v. infra 84b. ');"><sup>16</sup></span> ON THE EVIDENCE OF WITNESSES, thus excepting a confession of [an act punishable by] a fine for which subsequently there appeared witnesses, in which case there is exemption. That would accord with the view that in the case of a confession of [an act punishable by] a fine, for which subsequently there appeared witnesses, there is exemption;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Infra p. 429. ');"><sup>17</sup></span> but according to the opposite view that in the case of a confession of [an act punishable by] a fine for which subsequently appeared witnesses, there is liability,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Infra p. 429. ');"><sup>17</sup></span> what may be said [to be the import of the text]? — The important point comes in the concluding clause: