Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Related for Bava Metzia 43:4

אי הכי אימא סיפא אם היו הבעלים מרדפין אחריהם חייב להחזיר אי ביכולין להציל מאי אריא מרדפין אפילו אין מרדפין נמי הכא במאי עסקינן ביכולין להציל על ידי הדחק מרדפין לא אייאוש אין מרדפין אייאושי מיאש

— There are two kinds of robbers. Come and hear: If a river has carried off someone's beams, timber, or stones, and has deposited them in a neighbour's field, they belong to the neighbour because the owner has given up hope.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' An event like the flooding of one's property soon becomes known, and the owner becomes aware of his loss and gives up hope. In the Tosef. Keth. VIII, the version is: 'They belong to the neighbour if the owner has given up hope,' so also R. Han. and Tosaf. a.l. (q.v.). ');"><sup>7</sup></span>

Tosefta Ketubot

A thief who took from this one and gave to that one—whatever he took is taken, whatever he gave is given. A robber who took from this one and gave to that one—whatever he took is taken, whatever he gave is given. If the Jordan [river] took from this one and gave to this one—whatever it took is taken, whatever it gave is given. If a river carried off trees, stones or beams from this one and gave [them] to this one—if the owner despaired [of getting this property back] then they are his [the finder's]; but if the owner is in pursuit after them, or they are in another place [and thus had no way to know that their property was carried off by the river], then they belong to the owner.
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