Reference for Bava Batra 307:11

איתיביה רבי יוחנן לרבי שמעון בן לקיש מעשה בבני ברק באחד שמכר בנכסי אביו ומת ובאו בני משפחה וערערו לומר קטן היה בשעת מיתה ובאו ושאלו את רבי עקיבא מהו לבודקו אמר להם אי אתם רשאים לנוולו ועוד סימנין עשויין להשתנות לאחר מיתה

[replied Rabbah,] the money<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Or property. ');">³⁸</span> is to remain in the possession of its [original] owner.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hence the gift cannot be taken away from the donor unless reliable proof is produced by the donee. ');">³⁹</span> And [the following are] in the [same] dispute.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., they differ on the same points as R. Huna on the one hand, and R. Hisda and Rabbah, son of R. Huna, on the other, supra. ');">⁴⁰</span> For R. Johanan said: Proof [must be produced] by witnesses; and R. Simeon b. Lakish said: Proof [consists] in the attestation of the deed. R. Johanan pointed out [the following] objection against R. Simeon b. Lakish: It once happened at Bene-Berak that a person sold his father's estate, and died. The members of the family, thereupon,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'and stood up' Cf Rashb. ');">⁴¹</span> protested [that] he was a minor at the time of [his] death.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A minor, under twenty years of age, is not eligible to sell any of his father's estate. Hence, the property he sold should belong to the surviving members of the family. [The words 'of his death' do not occur in some MSS.; v.D.S]. ');">⁴²</span> They<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., 'the buyers'. This is the present assumption of R. Johanan. V. answer of R. Lakish, infra. ');">⁴³</span> came [to] R. Akiba and asked whether the body might be examined.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'what is he to examine him'; to exhume him, so as to ascertain his age by a post-mortem. ');">⁴⁴</span> He replied to them: You are not permitted to dishonour him; and, furthermore, [the] signs [of maturity] usually undergo a change after death.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. Semahoth IV, 12; infra 155a. Hence the examination could not produce any reliable evidence of his age. ');">⁴⁵</span>

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