Reference for Bava Batra 255:7

שלח ליה רבי אבא לרב יוסף בר חמא היה יודע לו בעדות קרקע עד שלא נסתמא ונסתמא פסול

teaches us this: That the dispute<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Between R. Meir and the Sages ');">¹³</span> [relates also to the case] where [a litigant declared], 'I will give it to you'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Against the view that the dispute has reference only to the case where a litigant declared, 'You may keep it.' R. Abba, by his statement that the defendant cannot retract but has to surrender the slave to the claimant, has taught us that the dispute between R. Meir and the Sages is not limited to the case where a claimant agrees to forfeit his claim in favour of the defendant on the ruling of relatives (or other disqualified persons), as in the view of one authority in Sanhedrin 24a, but applies also to that of a defendant who agrees to abide by the ruling of such disqualified persons and pay up; and that even in such a case the Sages hold the opinion that the defendant cannot retract. ');">¹⁴</span>

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