Reference for Kiddushin 6:12

אלא מסתברא דכי קא ממעט

So here too, [you must admit] that it is written in reference to annulment of vows!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Not kiddushin.');">¹⁵</span> And should you argue, We may learn therefrom<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Just as a father can annul his daughter's vows, so has he a title to her betrothal money.');">¹⁶</span> - but civil law<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'money'.');">¹⁷</span> cannot be deduced from ritual law.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'prohibition'. The title to betrothal money is purely a question of civil law, whereas the binding character of vows and their annulment belong to ritual law.');">¹⁸</span> And should you say, we may learn it from kenas<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'fine'; v. Glos. If a man seduces, violates, or slanders a na'arah, he must pay a fixed fine to her father: Ex. XXII, 15f; Deut. XXII, 13-19; 28f. Hence in the case of kiddushin too the money belongs to her father.');">¹⁹</span> - but civil law cannot be deduced from kenas?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This is a general principle. Kenas is not regarded as equitable indemnification for loss sustained, for then the amounts would vary, but as a Biblical decree. As such, it stands in a category by itself, and ordinary civil law cannot be compared with it.');">²⁰</span> And should you say: We may learn it from [the indemnity payable for her] shame and depreciation<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Besides the fixed kenas, the seducer must pay her father for the shame she sustained and her loss in social standing, which has a monetary value. These are ordinary payments for injury inflicted and therefore provide a basis for analogy.');">²¹</span> - yet shame and depreciation are different, since her father has an interest therein.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For her father could inflict these on her by marrying her to a man suffering from repulsive disfigurement.');">²²</span> - But [answer thus:] it is logical that when a limitation is made,

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