Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Responsa for Bava Batra 351:5

שאני התם דמשעת כתיבה הוא דשעבד נפשיה:

but, if [the woman did] remarry, her child is [deemed] legitimate.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The invalidity of the divorce not being so definite as to affect the legitimacy of the child. ');"><sup>9</sup></span> And they are the following: [A letter of divorce] written in the husband's handwriting, which bears no [signatures of] witnesses; [one] bearing [the signatures of] witnesses but no date; [and one] bearing a date and [the signature of] one witness only. These are the three [kinds of] letters of divorce [which are] invalid; did [the woman] however, re-marry, the child is [deemed] legitimate. R. Eleazar said: [A letter of divorce,] although it bears no [signatures of] witnesses but was given<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'he (the husband) gave it'. ');"><sup>10</sup></span>

Teshuvot Maharam

Q. A creditor demanded his money from a critically ill person. The latter admitted the indebtedness and ordered his heirs to repay the debt. Do you follow the decision of R. Tam that a widow has priority over a creditor in collecting (her ketubah) from movables, or the decision of Alfasi and the Geonim that the creditor has priority over the widow?
A. No difference of opinion exists between R. Tam and the Geonim in regard to this law. Even the former admits that nowadays, when the ordinance of the Saburaim gives the creditor the right to collect his debt from movables even after the debtor's death, the creditor has priority over the widow in collecting from movables.
SOURCES: Pr. 334; Am II, 68; Tesh. Maim. to Ishut, 23.
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Teshuvot Maharam

Q. A creditor demanded his money from a critically ill person. The latter admitted the indebtedness and ordered his heirs to repay the debt. Do you follow the decision of R. Tam that a widow has priority over a creditor in collecting (her ketubah) from movables, or the decision of Alfasi and the Geonim that the creditor has priority over the widow?
A. No difference of opinion exists between R. Tam and the Geonim in regard to this law. Even the former admits that nowadays, when the ordinance of the Saburaim gives the creditor the right to collect his debt from movables even after the debtor's death, the creditor has priority over the widow in collecting from movables.
SOURCES: Pr. 334; Am II, 68; Tesh. Maim. to Ishut, 23.
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