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The Gemara for our last Mishna begins our daf. The Mishna speaks of a husband who marries four wives and then dies, leaving only 100 dinars to split among them according to past rules. However, each wife, from the first to the fourth, must take an oath to the next wife that she has not taken anything from the estate inappropriately. The fourth wife need not take an oath.
The Gemara begins with a discussion of that fourth wife. If a creditor returns and takes the land of the third wife, the fourth wife should relinquish some of her land in its place. Is the fourth wife going to care for her land well knowing that it might be taken from her? Shouldn't she take an oath regarding this? Ben Nanas disagrees, saying that she will take good care of the land. Abaye the Elder, noting that people to take oaths regarding transactions with orphans, wins this debate: the fourth wife must also take an oath.
Rav Naḥman said that Rabba bar Avuh said: Everyone agrees that what the later creditor has collected, he has not collected, i.e., it may be repossessed by the earlier creditor. Rather, they disagree here as to whether we are concerned that perhaps she will deplete the field and cause its value to depreciate.
We explore the history of repossession in antiquity and the very right to repossess in Moderna legal theory.