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Our Daf turns us toward the question of what is included in one's acquisition. If a person pulls an animal, does s/he acquire the vessels that are sitting on that animal?
Would a person who wanted the vessels but not the animal acquire those vessels by pulling the animal? Is the animal like a 'mobile courtyard' in this case, and thus what is left in the courtyard is acquired by its owner?
Acquire the animal and acquire the vessels, does the buyer acquire the vessels? Although one can acquire an item by having it placed in his courtyard, and one’s animal is the equivalent of his courtyard, it is considered a mobile courtyard, and a mobile courtyard does not effect acquisition of items that are placed in it.
And if you would say that the animal can function as a courtyard when it is standing still, not walking, while being pulled, isn’t there a principle which states that anything that does not effect acquisition when moving also does not effect acquisition when it is standing or sitting?
Several gemarot establish the principle of kinyan chatzer. Though personal possession entails the most basic form of ownership, the gemara recognizes the capacity of 'chatzer' to almost mimic physical possession.
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