Reference for Chullin 260:8

מאי טעמא

If you wish I can say, because it is written [the word] this; or if you prefer I can say, because it is property which has no definite claimant.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For to every priest that claims them the owner could say that he proposed to give them to another priest. ypan');">⁴</span>

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