Talmud for Bava Batra 199:1
רב אשי אמר כל מן הצד דרך עקלתון היא קרובה לזה ורחוקה לזה
R. Ashi said: Any<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Our Mishnah does not refer to a particular case where a crooked path had been substituted (as R. Mesharsheya suggested), nor is the provision in our Mishnah a case of preventive measures (as R. Zebid maintained), but any path, however good, cannot be placed along the side of a field as a substitute for one which runs through the midst of it. ');"><sup>1</sup></span> path [that runs] along the side [of a field] is crooked, [for] it is near to one and far from another.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Any one living on the farther side of the field. And since a number of people, to whom the substituted path will cause hardship, will object to the change, the abolition of the old path would constitute a robbery of the public, and is therefore prohibited. ');"><sup>2</sup></span>
Jerusalem Talmud Kiddushin
In R. Eliezer’s opinion, the rules of acquisition of a Canaanite slave are not identical with those for real estate; he will reject deriving legal rules from a verse in the Prophets. If one walked across a field in length and breadth, he acquired up to the place he walked to, the words of Rebbi Eliezer. But the Sages say that he did not acquire up to the moment he acted in possession345He performed some agricultural work on the property.. Everybody agrees that if somebody sells a path to another, when the latter went, he acquired. What is the reason? “Arise, walk in the Land in length and breadth, for I shall give it to you.346Gen. 13:17.”