Bava Batra

175 pages summarized and illuminated.

• 2Privacy Rights in a Courtyard (Civil)
• 3Visual Trespass is Actionable in Court (Civil)
• 4King Herod Rebuilds the Temple (Civil)
• 5Fence Cost Settlement (Civil)
• 6Privacy on the Roof (Civil)
• 7Community-Enforceable Obligations (Civil)
• 8Feeding the Unlearned (Civil)
• 9Importance of Charity (Civil)
• 10Merits of Charity (Civil)
• 11Partners Divide Properties (Civil)
• 12Partners Divide a Field (Civil)
• 13Problems in Property Division (Civil)
• 14Ideal Dimensions for a Torah Scroll (Civil)
• 15Who Wrote the Books of Scripture? (Civil)
• 16The Suffering of Job (Civil)
• 17God Blessed Abraham with Everything (Civil)
• 18Preventing Future Damage (Civil)
• 19Urinating Against a Wall (Civil)
• 20Damage Despite Precautions (Civil)
• 21Restrictions on Commercial Activities in a Courtyard (Civil)
• 22Town Commerce Restrictions (Civil)
• 23Indirect Damages (Civil)
• 24Distance Regulations (Civil)
• 25It is on the Damaged Party to Protect Itself (Civil)
• 26Tree Roots in the Neighbor's Field (Civil)
• 27First-Fruit Must be From Your Land (Civil)
• 28Presumptive Ownership of Real Estate - Chazakah (Civil)
• 29The Length of Residence for Presumptive Ownership (Civil)
• 30Presumptive Ownership (Civil)
• 31Presumption, Amended Pleadings
• 32Presumption and "Why Would He Lie?" argument (Civil)
• 33Presumption - Rumor Breaks It (Civil)
• 34The Case of the Silver Ingot of Rav Abba (Civil)
• 35Let He Who Is Stronger Prevail (Civil)
• 36Does Plowing Establish Presumptive Ownership? (Civil)
• 37Selling the Land but Keeping the Trees (Civil)
• 38Owner's Protest (Civil)
• 39How to Lodge an Effective Protest and Confidentiality Agreements (Civil)
• 40Secret Gift (Civil)
• 41Presumption of Ownership Must Be Accompanied by a Claim (Civil)
• 42Rules of Chazakah (Civil)
• 43Partners CAN Establish Chazakah (Civil)
• 44The Seller of a Field Cannot Testify for the Buyer (Civil)
• 45The Chazakah of a Craftsman (Civil)
• 46Discovery Request Against a Craftsman (Civil)
• 47Interested Party in a Lawsuit (Civil)
• 48Is a Forced Action Valid? (Civil)
• 49Witnesses Can't Change their Minds (Civil)
• 50No Chazakah for Damages (Civil)
• 51When One Sells Land to his Wife (Civil)
• 52Two Meanings of Chazakah (Civil)
• 53Is the Presence of the Giver Required? (Civil)
• 54Acquiring Land by Lying Down on It (Civil)
• 55The Legal Force of Secular Law (Civil)
• 56False Witnesses for Chazakah (Civil)
• 57Activities that Establish Presumption of Ownership (Civil)
• 58Rav Banaah and the Crypt of Abraham (Civil)
• 59Privacy Rights Limit Renovations (Civil)
• 60Source for Laws of Privacy (Civil)
• 61When One Sells a House (Civil)
• 62"I am not retaining anything" in Real Estate Contracts (Civil)
• 63No Unnecessary Terms in Legal Documents (Civil)
• 64Does the Seller Sell with a Generous or a Stingy Attitude? (Civil)
• 65The Bigger the Property Sold, the More is Included with it (Civil)
• 66A Mortar that was Carved then Attached to the Ground (Civil)
• 67One Sells an Olive Press (Civil)
• 68One Sells a Town (Civil)
• 69Sale of a Field (Civil)
• 70Returning a Deposit (Civil)
• 71Sale, Gift, Consecration (Civil)
• 72Consecration According to Rabbi Shimon (Civil)
• 73Selling a Ship (Civil)
• 74Stories of Rabbah bar bar Chanah (Civil)
• 75Acquiring a Ship (Civil)
• 76Acquiring a Ship: Control It, Pull It, or Lift It? (Civil)
• 77Sale of a Debt Obligation
• 78Selling a Donkey
• 79Selling a Donkey and its Foal
• 80Buying Doves
• 81Buying Trees
• 82Recitation over First Fruit
• 83Four Types of Errors in Sales
• 84Buying a Pile of Produce
• 85One's Container Formalizes Acquisition
• 86Pulling is Ineffective if Lifting is Possible
• 87Selling Wine or Oil
• 88Just Weights
• 89Honest Measures
• 90Market Distorters
• 91Importance of Settling the Land of Israel
• 92Implied Warranty
• 93Consequential Damages
• 94Acceptable Percentage of Inferior Merchandise
• 95Selling a Wine Cellar As Is
• 96Wine that Sours
• 97Wine Made of Dregs
• 98Building Contractor
• 99Right-of-Way Through the Property of Another
• 100Seven Futilities
• 101Selling Burial Plot
• 102Investigating a Possible Forgotten Catacomb
• 103Selling a Tract of Land
• 104Contract for the Sale of Land
• 105Contradictory Statements in Contracts
• 106Selling a Field by Landmarks
• 107Estate Division and Disagreements in Value Assessment
• 108Laws of Inheritance
• 109Order of Inheritance
• 110How Children and Brothers Inherit
• 111Daughters Could Have Inherited Together with Sons
• 112Not to Transfer Land in Israel Between Tribes
• 113Inheritance Passed Down Only by Day
• 114Time to Reconsider an Agreement
• 115Order of Inheritance: Depth-First
• 116Man Who Leaves Not a Son
• 117Daughters of Tzelophchad: Example of Inheriting in the Land of Israel
• 118Who Got a Portion in the Land of Israel
• 119The Winning Argument of the Daughters of Tzelophchad
• 120Not to Intermarry between Tribes
• 121Prohibition to Marry Outside the Tribe Ends
• 122Daughters are Supported From the Father's Estate
• 123The Double Portion of the Firstborn
• 124Limitations to the Double Portion of the Firstborn
• 125The Case of a Grandmother Concerning Inheritance
• 126Changing Allocations in the Inheritance
• 127Questions About Firstborn
• 128Decisions of Rabbi Abba
• 129Being Precise with "Give" vs "Bequeath"
• 130Power to Change Allocations in the Inheritance
• 131Is Theory or Practice More Important?
• 132Giving All Property to Administrator
• 133Is It Appropriate to Disinherit One's Children?
• 134Identifying Someone as Son or Brother
• 135A Will Written by a Seriously Ill Person is Invalid
• 136A Will of a Healthy Person
• 137Sale of Inheritance
• 138Refusing a Gift
• 139The Daughters are Supported
• 140Doubtful Gender Takes the Lesser Portion in the Inheritance
• 141Gifts to Unborn Children
• 142Only Your Own Unborn Children Can Acquire
• 143You and the Donkey
• 144Estate Division Must be Formalized
• 145Groomsman's Gifts
• 146Is Talmud Study Hard?
• 147Explaining the Intentions in a Will
• 148Changing One's Will
• 149Actions of a Seriously Ill Person
• 150These Give Away All Their Possessions
• 151Will in Anticipation of Death
• 152Strengthening the Will
• 153Was He Sick When Writing a Will?
• 154One Who Forbids Something Can Also Allow It
• 155To Sell Inherited Land One Needs to be Grownup
• 156Disagreement About the Laws of a Seriously Ill Person
• 157Inheritance: Who Died First?
• 158The House Collapsed On Mother and Son
• 159A Hard-to-Understand Ruling From Israel
• 160Document That is Folded and Sewn Down
• 161Preventing Forgery in a "Bound" Document
• 162The Last Line in Any Legal Document is Ignored
• 163Prevention of Document Forgeries
• 164Dating a Bound Document
• 165Three Daily Transgressions
• 166Contradictory Amounts in Loan Documents
• 167Who Can Authorize Document Preparation and Who Pays the Fee
• 168Partial Debt Payments
• 169Debt Collection Procedure
• 170One Who Makes Superfluous Claims in Court Must Stand by Them
• 171Partial Debt Payments without Trust
• 172Two Brothers, One Poor and One Rich
• 173Obligations of a Loan Guarantor
• 174Lender and Guarantor
• 175Loans and Liens
• 176How to Become Wise