Responsa for Bava Batra 282:4
איתיביה רב נחמן לרב הונא האומר אם ילדה אשתי זכר יטול מנה ילדה זכר נוטל מנה אמר ליה משנתינו איני יודע מי שנאה
But should he not have replied to him [that] it<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Our Mishnah. ');"><sup>6</sup></span> [represents the view' of] R. Meir who stated [that] a man may convey possession of a thing that has not [yet] come into the world!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Why, then, did he say that he did not know who the author of our Mishnah was? ');"><sup>7</sup></span>
Teshuvot Maharam
Q. One of the witnesses to a document subsequently became related to the beneficiary named in the document.
A. The document has no value unless witnesses testify that they saw the document, and recognized the signatures of the witnesses, in the hands of its present possessor before the witness in question became a relative of the beneficiary.
SOURCES: Pr. 115, 919, Am. II, 101; Mord. Sanh. 696. This Responsum relates to Pr. 50. In Cr. 31, L. 355, the two parts are printed together.
A. The document has no value unless witnesses testify that they saw the document, and recognized the signatures of the witnesses, in the hands of its present possessor before the witness in question became a relative of the beneficiary.
SOURCES: Pr. 115, 919, Am. II, 101; Mord. Sanh. 696. This Responsum relates to Pr. 50. In Cr. 31, L. 355, the two parts are printed together.
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