Oath on a "Found Object [Metziah]"

Returning lost objects

Claimants on a Discovered Object

Language of the Oath: Bava Metzia 5b

The Oath is Rabbinic[, modeled after the Biblical oath of Partial Admission]: Bava Metzia 4a, 5b

Why the oath is required: Bava Metzia 5b-6a

Where there are witnesses, there is no Oath: Bava Metzia 2a

If one of them grabbed the object, before an oath could be sworn: Bava Metzia 6a

Above, where the other one was quiet at first and then protested: Bava Metzia 6a

Whether one must swear that he didn't find more than he is returning: Bava Metzia 4b, 8a



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