Reference for Shevuot 93:7

ורב ושמואל דאמרי תרוייהו לא שנו אלא שמת מלוה בחיי לוה אבל מת לוה בחיי מלוה כבר נתחייב מלוה לבני לוה שבועה ואין אדם מוריש שבועה לבניו

Shall we say, from the borrower?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If orphans produce a document showing that the borrower is indebted to their father, can they not exact payment unless they take an oath');">¹¹</span> Their father would have received payment without an oath, and they require an oath!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Surely not! We do not impose restrictions on orphans.');">¹²</span> But it means: 'And so also orphans from orphans cannot exact payment except with an oath.'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The lender and borrower both died, and the lender's sons are claiming from the borrower's sons. Here the lender's sons must take an oath, for the lender himself could not have exacted payment from the borrower's sons without an oath; for payment cannot be exacted from orphans except on oath.');">¹³</span>

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