Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Responsa for Bava Batra 68:3

זה אומר של אבותי וזה אומר של אבותי אמר רב נחמן כל דאלים גבר ומאי שנא משני שטרות היוצאין ביום אחד

R. Papa says we should release.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because they only attached it from the first on this condition. ');"><sup>9</sup></span> The accepted ruling is that we should not attach in the first instance, but if we have attached we should not release.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., the halachah follows R. Judah. ');"><sup>10</sup></span> [If there are two claimants to a property<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Whether landed property or other. ');"><sup>11</sup></span> and] one says,' It belonged to my father,' while the other says, 'To my father' [without either of them bringing any evidence], R. Nahman says that whichever is stronger can take possession.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' v. supra n. 7. ');"><sup>12</sup></span> Why, [it may be asked,] should the ruling be different here from the case in which two deeds [of sale or gift relating to the same property and] bearing the same date

Teshuvot Maharam

Q. A says he is entitled to receive more than half of the interest due him and B from a Gentile, but B says he himself is entitled to an equal share with A.
A. Each one is entitled to receive the amount the other admits is coming to him; as to the remainder, it belongs to the one who will seize it first.
SOURCES: Am II, 155.
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