In the case where a courtyard (hatzer) is owned by several partners, each of them has to contribute to the usual requirements of a court; if they divide it, a partition wall or fence must be erected in accordance with certain rules.

Depending on how the Mishnah is read, this division is either with a low row of wooden pegs (which shows that visual trespass is not damaging) or a four amot (approx.

72 inches) high stone wall (which shows that visual trespass is considered damaging).

Disputes as regards to injury or nuisance are generally settled by the fact of prior or established rights (Chazakah).

In the transfer of a house, a court, a winepress, a bath, a township, or a field, much depends on the meaning of these terms, which are fully defined in chapter 4.

In front of the cave was the court ('hatzer') 6 by 6 cubits, so as to afford sufficient room for the bier and the persons attending the burial."

The latter was prepared in the following way: When a line or two had been written the parchment was folded and one witness signed on the back of the document; this operation was repeated as many times as the parties concerned liked.

This method, requiring a longer time for the execution of the document, is said to have been originally introduced for the writing of a letter of divorce in the case of hasty and passionate husbands (especially priests who were prevented by law from remarrying their divorced wives), to give them time to calm down.

The Babylonian gemara includes the following topics and passages: The Gemaras also contain the following interesting homiletic interpretation of Biblical passages: The commentary of Rashi on the Babylonian Talmud Baba Batra ends at the beginning of chapter 3; its place is taken by that of his grandson, Rashbam, from chapter 3 to the end of the tractate.

to end; Moses Benjamin, Ma'aseh Rab, on The Tales of Rabbah bar Ḥanah; E. Guttmacher, Ẓaphenath Pa'aneaḥ, on the same.