Bava Batra

collect for her a tenth part of her father's estate  even from the casing of a handmill.  R. Ashi said: When we were in the court of R. Kahana, we used to collect such dues from the rent of houses also. MISHNAH. IF A MAN SELLS A COURTYARD HE [AUTOMATICALLY] SELLS THE HOUSES, PITS, DITCHES AND CAVES [ATTACHED TO IT,] BUT NOT MOVABLES. IF, HOWEVER, HE SAYS TO THE PURCHASER, [I SELL] IT AND ALL ITS CONTENTS, ALL ARE INCLUDED IN THE SALE.  IN EITHER CASE, HOWEVER, HE DOES NOT SELL A BATH OR AN OLIVE PRESS THAT MAY BE IN IT. R. ELIEZER SAYS: IF A MAN SELLS A COURTYARD, HE ONLY SELLS WITH IT THE SPACE OF THE COURTYARD. GEMARA. Our Rabbis taught: If a man sells a courtyard he sells [with it] the outer and the inner apartments,  and the sand-field  in it. As to the shops, those that open on to it  are sold with it, those that do not open on to it  are not. Those that open on to both sides are sold with it. R. Eliezer says: If a man sells a court he sells only the air of the court. The Master says [here] that shops opening on to both sides are sold with the courtyard. [How can this be,] Seeing that R. Hiyya has learned that they are not sold with it? — There is no contradiction. The former speaks of shops of which the main entrance is in the courtyard,  the latter of those of which the main entrance is in the street. R. ELIEZER SAYS: IF A MAN SELLS A COURTYARD, HE SELLS ONLY THE SPACE OF THE COURTYARD. Raba said: If the vendor says [in Babylonia], I sell you a diretha,  no one disputes that he means the apartments. Where the authorities differ is when he says darta,  one [R. Eliezer] holding that in that case he means the open space only, the other [the Rabbis] that he means the apartments as well. According to another version: Raba said: If he said darta, all are agreed that he meant the apartments as well. Where they differ is in the case where he said 'hazer',  one holding that this means only the space of the courtyard and the other that it is analogous to the courtyard of the Tabernacle. Raba further said: If a man sells another the shore  of a river and its bed,  if the purchaser takes possession of the shore he does not thereby acquire ownership of the bed, and if he takes possession of the bed he does not thereby acquire ownership of the shore.  Is that so? Has not Samuel laid down that if a man sells another ten fields in ten different provinces, as soon as the purchaser has taken formal possession of one  he becomes owner of all? — The reason there is that the earth is all one stretch  and all [the properties] are utilised in the same way. Here, however, one thing is for one purpose and the other for another. According to another version,