Related%20passage for Bava Metzia 31:11

ועד אימת ניחא ליה דליקום בהמנותיה אמר רב הונא עד שעת העמדה בדין

then our attitude is [as follows]: if [the original owner] had other land, and [the robber] said, 'I want this,' [we assume that the robber, in acquiring the field,] intended to secure it thereby for the [first] buyer,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The fact that the robber insisted on getting this field as payment, while there were other fields owned by the debtor which he could have taken, would show that he was prompted by the motive of securing that field for the person to whom he sold it unlawfully. ');">¹⁰</span>

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