Related%20passage for Bava Kamma 68:10

א"ל רב אחא בר תחליפא לרבא א"כ מצינו לרבי יהודה תם משלם יותר מחצי נזק והתורה אמרה (שמות כא, לה) ומכרו את השור החי וחצו את כספו

and that where no loss would be incurred to the plaintiff — as e.g. where an ox of the value of five <i>sela'</i> gored an ox similarly of the value of five <i>sela'</i> [i.e. twenty <i>zuz</i>] and it so happened that the carcass [increased in value and] reached the amount of thirty <i>zuz</i> — the defendant should indeed be entitled to share in the profit;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Of the ten zuz that make the carcass worth more than the ox while alive. ');">¹⁸</span> hence the verse, He shall surely make full restitution, is adduced [to emphasise that in all cases] an offender could only have to pay but never to receive payment.

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