יב אמר רבא שמע מיניה מדרב הונא אין מחזיקין בנכסי קטן
12 R. Huna said: A minor is not permitted to enter upon a captive's estates, nor the next of kin upon a minor's estates, nor a next of kin of a next of kin upon a minor's estates.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' E.g., A is the brother of B, a minor, by the same father, whilst C is A's half brother by his mother, hence no blood-relation of B at all. ');"><sup>22</sup></span> 'A minor is not permitted to enter upon a captive's estates,' lest he injure them. 'Nor a next of kin of a next of kin upon a minor's estates' — this refers to a brother on the mother's side.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As explained in n. 1. ');"><sup>23</sup></span> 'Nor a next of kin upon a minor s estates:' since he [the minor] cannot protest, he may take presumptive possession thereof.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If one enjoys three consecutive years' possession of an estate, without its owner formally protesting that it is not his, he is assumed to have bought or otherwise acquired it. Now, a minor cannot protest, and so the relative may claim it as his after three years, on the ground that he, and not the minor, had inherited them; the same applies to the relative's relative (as explained in n. 1), who may claim it as heir of the first next of kin. ');"><sup>24</sup></span> Said Raba: It follows from R. Huna's dictum that one cannot claim presumptive ownership of a minor s estate,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A cannot claim that he bought the estate from B, the minor's father, on the strength of three years' undisturbed possession. This follows from the fact that R. Huna merely forbade a relative to enter upon a minor's estates, but not a stranger, which shows that a stranger's claim of presumptive ownership is ignored. ');"><sup>25</sup></span>