Responsa for Bava Batra 314:2

אמר רב יעקב מנהר פקוד משמיה דרבינא תא שמע שטרי חוב המוקדמין פסולין והמאוחרין כשרין

and post-dated [ones] are valid.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sheb. X, 5, B.M. 17a, 72a, Sanh, 32a. The creditor, by allowing the entry of a later date, has thereby surrendered his right to seize those lands which the borrower sold between the actual date of the loan and the later date that was entered in the bond. ');">⁵</span> Now, if it could be assumed [that where the bond contained the entry]. 'That I may acquire'. [and] he [subsequently] bought and sold [or where it contained the entry] 'That I may acquire' [and] he [subsequently] bought and transmitted [the purchase] as an inheritance, [the land] is not mortgaged, [to the creditor], why [are] post-dated [bonds] valid?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lands that the borrower bought (say in February) between the real date of the loan (say January) and the later one (say March) that was entered on the bond, though acquired after the date of the loan, and consequently not mortgaged to the creditor, could nevertheless be seized by him from purchasers who bought these (say in April) on the plea that they were bought by the borrower before the date and sold by him after the date of the loan entered on the bond. And since a post-dated bond is valid, despite this possibility, one must conclude that lands bought and sold after the date of a loan are also mortgaged to the creditor, ');">⁶</span> This [is surely similar to the case of an entry] 'That I may acquire'! — [But] this [may] represent the view of<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra. p. 685, n. 5. ');">⁷</span> R. Meir who holds [that] a person may transfer possession of something that is not [yet] in existence.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hence no answer may be derived from it to Samuel's question which had reference to the view of the Rabbis. ');">⁸</span>

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