Ketubot 92b — the Talmud in English

But he left intermediate property of the same kind:

if Levi left in Shimon’s possession intermediate property like his own, the creditor cannot collect his debt from Levi, because

he can say to him

Levi can say to the creditor:

“I left you—

when I purchased the field—

a place from which to collect”

your debt [from Shimon].

And this is how Levi argues: Since Shimon had intermediate property in his possession at the time I purchased, whereas if the creditor had come when the two intermediate properties were still in Shimon’s possession, the creditor could not have compelled Shimon to take specifically the intermediate field that was subsequently transferred to me, but Shimon could have given him whichever intermediate property he wished, therefore I argue, “What the first [Shimon] sold to the second [to me, to Levi] was every right that would come into his possession,” and just as at that time he had the right to direct you to this intermediate property that is now in his possession, so now as well the law is that you should be directed to the intermediate property in Shimon’s possession.

8.

In the matters:

Abaye said: Reuven sold a field to Shimon with a guarantee, and Reuven’s creditor came and seized it from him

that is, if Reuven’s creditor came in order to seize the field from Shimon, since it had become encumbered to him while it was in Reuven’s possession—

it is the law that Reuven goes

the seller

and indemnifies him

the creditor.

That is, Reuven can stand in judgment with the creditor and present claims so that the creditor will withdraw from Shimon; for example, Reuven may say to the creditor: I have such-and-such a counterclaim against you, and I am not paying this debt, because I am withholding payment of it on account of the counterclaim, or he may say to the creditor [as he could have said to him had he come to collect from him], “Swear to me that I have not paid you,” and anything similar.

Because he says to him

Reuven says to the creditor: “What

you take from him returns upon me” [what you take from Shimon will come back upon me],

for I sold it to him with a guarantee.

And some say:

Even without a guarantee as well,

even if Reuven sold it to Shimon without a guarantee, he can stand in judgment with the one who comes to seize the property, although he cannot claim: “What you take from him returns upon me.”

And he cannot say to him

the creditor cannot say to Reuven:

“You are not

a litigant of mine,”

you are not presently my litigant, since I am coming to collect from Shimon and not from you.

And because

he says to him

Reuven says to the creditor:

“I do not want Shimon to have a grievance against me”

[I do not want Shimon—who purchased from me a field that was encumbered and had it seized from him—to have a grievance against me over this].

9.

Protesters:

Abaye said:

Reuven sold a field to Shimon without a guarantee—

so that even if it becomes clear that the field was stolen property in his possession, he will not compensate him—and the purchaser has not yet given the money for the field.