Related for Eruvin 63:11
אמר רבי נראין דברי מדברי אבא מוטב שיחשדו חברים לתרום שלא מן המוקף ולא יאכילו לעמי הארץ טבלים
with figs from my tree' [the latter] may eat them as an irregular meal<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra p. 221, n. 18.');"><sup>35</sup></span> or<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If he desires to make of them a regular meal.');"><sup>36</sup></span> must tithe them as demai.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Glos., it being doubtful whether the owner, who knew the quantity of fruit to be gathered, had, or had not set apart for it the required dues from some other produce.');"><sup>37</sup></span> This<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That the figs must be tithed at least as demai.');"><sup>38</sup></span>
Tosefta Maasrot
[If the owner of a field] said to him, "Go out and gather figs for yourself from the fig tree," he may eat casually from them and tithe them as certainly untithed produce. [If he] said to him, "Go out and fill yourself up this basket," he may eat from them casually and tithe them as Demai. In what case does this apply? With [a field belonging to] an am ha'aretz, but with [the field of] a chaver, he may eat and there is no need to tithe, the words of Rebbi. Rabban Shimon ben Gamaliel says, In what case does this apply? With [the field of] an am ha'aretz, but with [the field of] a chaver, he should not eat until he has tithed, since chaverim are not be suspected of taking Terumah [on behalf of other produce] that is not in close by (and thus we can be certain that the chaver-owner would not have already tithed these figs (see Ter. 4:3)). Said Rebbi (not "Rabbi Yehuda"), my words are preferable to the words of Rabban Shimon ben Gamaliel. It is better that chaverim will take Terumah [from produce] that is not close by and not feed untithed produce to amei ha'aretz.
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