Responsa for Bava Batra 342:16

א"ל רב אשי לרב כהנא והאידנא דלא קא עבדינן הכי בתר דאמר ליה רב ספרא לספריה כי כתביתו הני תברי אי ידעיתו זימנא דשטרא כתבו אי לא כתבו סתמא דכל אימת דנפיק לרעיה

and say, 'I have [subsequently] bought it from you again'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Even the document which the buyer might have given to the seller as confirmation of his to.purchase would be of no avail, since its date is earlier than the one which appears on the postdated bill of sale, and the former could, therefore, plausibly claim that after the to purchase by the seller the land was sold to him again. ');">²⁹</span> If so, [in the case of] bonds of indebtedness also, one might sometimes borrow [money] in Nisan and write the bond for the creditor<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'for him'. ');">³⁰</span>

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