Related for Kiddushin 82:11

הא למה לי קרא מדרבי חייא בר אבא א"ר יוחנן נפקא דא"ר חייא בר אבא א"ר יוחנן אין העבד נעשה שליח לקבל גט מיד בעלה של אשה לפי. שאינו בתורת גיטין וקידושין

It may be derived from R'Hiyya B'Abba's dictum in R'Johanan's name! For R'Hiyya B'Abba said in R'Johanan's name: A [heathen] slave cannot become an agent to receive a divorce from a woman's husband, because he himself is not subject to the law of marriage and divorce!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In the Jewish sense. This shews that it is mere logic that one cannot act as an agent where he cannot be a principal, and the same applies to the others.');">²¹</span> - It is necessary. I might think that a slave [is ineligible], since he is not empowered to free [a married woman] at all.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit.,' he is not a person of freeing at all.' It is impossible for a slave to free a married woman, sc. his wife, by divorce, since he cannot marry.');">²²</span>

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