If someone says I am selling you land the size of a beit kur measured out with a rope give or take, what did the seller mean to say? Is the second part of his statement showing he/she changed their mind or is it keeping open both possibilities? Ben Nanas says we hold by the last thing one says. Rav says that those who disagree with him, hold that we split the difference 50/50 since we don’t actually know what the seller intended. Shmuel says that those who disagree say that we side with the one who has the land in his possession (in the case in the mishna it’s the seller). The gemara brings various cases where the same issue is raised and uses it to see who Rav and Shmuel side with in this debate.
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