Responsa for Bava Batra 317:2
ומאי קושיא דלמא מצי אמר מכח אבוה דאבא קאתינא תדע דכתיב (תהלים מה, יז) תחת אבותיך יהיו בניך תשיתמו לשרים בכל הארץ
and this it is that presents a difficulty in civil law;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. p. 691, n. 9. ');"><sup>5</sup></span> for they<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The buyers. ');"><sup>6</sup></span> could say to him, 'Your father has sold and you are taking away'!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The son's title to the estate is solely due to the rights of his father, how then, could he lay any claim to that which his father himself had sold ');"><sup>7</sup></span> What objection is this! Could he<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The son, the grandson of the original owner. ');"><sup>8</sup></span>
Teshuvot Maharam
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.
Teshuvot Maharam
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.