Bava Batra 73

לאו מי אמר ר' ישמעאל חד פירא הוי חזקה לכולהו פירי הכא נמי הני הוו חזקה להני והני הוו חזקה להני

For did not R. Ishmael lay down that one kind of crop confers a presumptive title to the whole field? So here, one set of ten trees confers a presumptive title to the others, and vice versa.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'these … to these and these … to these.' ');">¹</span> This, however, is only the case if the other twenty did not produce [in the other two years]; for if they did produce and he did not take the produce, he obtains no <i>hazakah</i>. And in any case [it is necessary that the trees of which he does take the produce] should be spread about the field.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'be divided' (the fruits between the various sets of trees). Because if he takes the produce of ten in one beth se'ah, this is counted as a field by itself, and confers no right to the rest. ');">²</span>

והני מילי היכא דלא אפיקו אבל אפיקו ולא אכל לא הויא חזקה והוא דבאזי באזוזי:

[If a man sells a field to two persons, the ground to one and the trees to the other, and] if the one takes possession of the ground and the other takes possession of the trees,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' By digging or some similar action. ');">³</span> R. Zebid says that the one becomes legal owner of the trees<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., of the trees only, without any rights in the ground under or round them. ');">⁴</span>

זה החזיק באילנות וזה החזיק בקרקע אמר רב זביד זה קנה אילנות וזה קנה קרקע מתקיף לה רב פפא אם כן אין לו לבעל אילנות בקרקע כלום לימא ליה בעל קרקע לבעל אילנות עקור אילנך שקול וזיל אלא אמר רב פפא זה קנה אילנות וחצי קרקע וזה קנה חצי קרקע:

and the other becomes the legal owner of the ground.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., the ground under the trees and as much round them as is required for tending them (Rashb.). ');">⁵</span> R. Papa strongly objected to this ruling. According to this, [he said,] the owner of the trees has no right whatever in the ground, and the owner of the ground can therefore tell him [when the tree withers], 'Cut down your tree and take it and be gone.' No, said R. Papa, [the law is that] the one becomes owner of the trees and half the ground, and the other of half the ground.

פשיטא מכר קרקע ושייר אילנות לפניו יש לו קרקע ואפילו לר' עקיבא דאמר מוכר בעין יפה מוכר ה"מ גבי בור ודות

There is no question that if a man sells a piece of ground<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To one purchaser. V. infra. ');">⁶</span> and retains the trees on it for himself, he is entitled to a certain amount of ground [round the trees]. This ruling would be accepted even by R. Akiba, who said [in regard to a field with a well in it] that the seller interprets the terms of the sale liberally.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'he sells with a kindly eye,' i.e., if a man owns a courtyard or a field with a well in it, and sells the courtyard but not the well, he does not ipso facto retain a right of way through the courtyard or the field to the well, but has to pay for it, if required, to the purchaser. V. infra 64a. ');">⁷</span>

דלא מכחשו בארעא אבל אילנות

For this only applies to a well and a cistern, which do not impair the soil,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' There is therefore no danger that he will at some future time be called upon by the purchaser of the field to remove the well; hence it does not occur to him to reserve the ground round it for himself. ');">⁸</span> but in the case of trees which do impair the soil<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Through the spreading of the roots. ');">⁹</span>