Reference for Bava Metzia 24:22

אלא הא דתנן כותבין שטר ללוה אף על פי שאין מלוה עמו לכתחילה היכי כתבינהו ניחוש שמא כתב ללות בניסן ולא לוה עד תשרי ואתי למטרף לקוחות שלא כדין

<b><i>GEMARA</i></b>. With what kind of circumstances do we deal here? If the debtor admits [that the debt is due], then, even if there is a mortgage clause [in the documents], why shall [the finder] not return them, seeing that the debtor admits [that he has not paid the debt]?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And the creditor is legally entitled to exact payment from the mortgaged property even if the debtor has sold it, so there is no injustice. ');">²¹</span>

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