Responsa for Bava Batra 58:5
ולא אמרן אלא דלא כתוב עיטרא אבל כתוב עיטרא קלא אית ליה
Rami b. Hama and R. 'Ukba b. Hama bought a maidservant in partnership, the arrangement being that one should have her services during the first, third and fifth years, and the other during the second, fourth and sixth. Their title to her was contested, and the case came before Raba. He said to the brothers: Why did you make this arrangement? So that neither of you should obtain a presumptive right against the other [was it not]?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' By having three years' undisturbed possession. ');"><sup>4</sup></span>
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