Related%20passage for Ketubot 199:3

רב שמואל בר ביסנא אמר ר"נ כאלמנה מה אלמנה יחידה אף שליח יחיד לאפוקי ב"ד דרבים נינהו והלכתא שליח כאלמנה

R. Shmuel b. Bisna said in the name of R. Nahman: As a widow, just as the widow is a single individual so too an agent a single individual; thus excluding a court, who are many. And the law is that an agent [has the same legal status] as a widow.

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