Reference for Bava Metzia 49:6
ואיבעית אימא הא והא דלא אשתייר בה מידי ולא קשיא הא דמהדרי אפיה לגבי פירי הא דלא מהדרי אפיה לגבי פירי
the other [sc. the finder] is entitled to the object without a mark! — Said R. Zebid: There is no difficulty. The former [Baraitha] refers to a cask and flax; the latter, to a basket and fruit.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The cask is identifiable, but not the flax; similarly the basket and the fruit. Now, had the flax fallen out of the cask, some would have remained therein; hence it is assumed that they were lying together by chance, and so the flax belongs to the finder. Fruit, however, can easily roll out of its basket entirely, and therefore both are assumed to belong to the same person. ');"><sup>4</sup></span>
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