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Rami b. Hama objected [from the following Mishnah]: If one deposited money with his neighbour, who bound it up and slung it over his shoulder<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'behind him.' ');">¹³</span> [or] entrusted it to his minor son or daughter and locked [the door] before them, but not properly,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., he shut them in the house, so that they could not go out with the money, but did not close the door properly. ');">¹⁴</span> he is responsible, because he did not guard [it] in the manner of bailees.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. infra 42a. ');">¹⁵</span> Hence, it is only because they were minors; but if they were adults, he would be free [from liability]. Yet why so? Let him say to him, 'It is not my desire that my bailment should be in the hands of another person'! — Said Raba: He who makes a deposit

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