Responsa for Bava Batra 276:7
אלמא כיון דלא צריך וקאמר לטפויי מלתא קאתי הכא נמי כיון דלא צריך וקאמר לטפויי מלתא קא אתי:
to add something; [so] here also, since he mentioned [that]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' 'In accordance with his due'. ');"><sup>17</sup></span> which was not necessary, his object was to add something.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., that the sum shall be in addition to his debt. ');"><sup>18</sup></span> Our Rabbis taught: If a dying man said, 'X owes me a <i>maneh</i>', the witnesses may write [it down].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As a memorandum of what they heard. ');"><sup>19</sup></span>
Teshuvot Maharam
Q. A asked his road companion B to keep some money (sixty schillings) for him. B refused to take the money saying he had no place where to keep it. A suggested that he put it in his sheet, and B did so. Subsequently, the money was stolen from B. A, however, demanded his money and claimed that B was guilty of negligence since he slept in the market-place among thieves.
A. If B took reasonable care to watch his sheet, even though he slept in the market place, he is free from any obligation to A, since he complied with A's instructions.
SOURCES: Pr. 843.
A. If B took reasonable care to watch his sheet, even though he slept in the market place, he is free from any obligation to A, since he complied with A's instructions.
SOURCES: Pr. 843.
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