Tosefta for Bekhorot 59:34
דההוא דהוה קרי ליה לחבריה דיירא בר דיירתא א"ל
who called after his companion: proselyte son of a proselyte, and the latter retorted 'May I merit [divine reward] as I have not eaten the fruits of the sabbatical year like you'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And since he boasts of this, we see that in that place, the sabbatical law was held strictly. Another explanation is: May a curse come to me if I partook of the fruits of the sabbatical year, as you have done.');"><sup>14</sup></span>
Tosefta Demai
One who sends fruits to his friend, and he [presumably the friend] decides to return it, he comports himself [vis-a-vis the returned fruit] according to how it was (i.e., its prior status). Abba Shaul says, "I would be concerned lest it be switched." Rabbi Shimon ben Gamaliel says, "If he has a sharecropper who knows how to tithe, but he (i.e., the landowner) does not trust him as to tithes, and he (i.e., the sharecropper) brought his fruits to him, and he said, yours (i.e., your share) are tithed, he is believed [in this instance]." Rebbi says, "He is not trustworthy [according to the principle] that one who is suspected regarding [one] matter may neither adjudicate nor testify" (Bekh. 30a:3).
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