Signs Identifying an Object - Simanim

Signs and the Loss of Hope by the Owner

Whether the acceptability of identifying signs is Biblical or Rabbinic: Bava Metzia 18b-19a, 27a, 27a-28a

Power of Identifying via signs as a Rabbinic Rule Linked to a Verse [Asmachta]: Bava Metzia 27b

Why signs would be valid for claiming items, if they are only Rabbinic in general validity: Bava Metzia 27b

Requirement for the presentation of Signs: Bava Metzia 27b, 28a, 28b

Returning an object to a known cheater, where he has the signs: Bava Metzia 28b

Requiring Witnesses to testify that the claimant isn't a cheater: Bava Metzia 28b

Returning it to a Torah Scholar on his own recognition of it, without independent identification: Shabbat 114a, Bava Metzia 19a, 23b, 24a

Defining the Level of a Torah Scholar for the Above: Bava Metzia 23b-24a

Returning an item to a Torah Scholar where there can be no visual identification: Bava Metzia 23b

An item with a sign, beside a sign-less item: Bava Metzia 25a

Only identification of the forehead/nose counts to identify a body: Bava Metzia 27b

Identification via a Mole: Bava Metzia 27b

Whether signs change posthumously: Bava Metzia 27b

Where both have Signs: Bava Metzia 28a

Signs vs. a Witness: Bava Metzia 28a

Signs vs. Signs and a Witness: Bava Metzia 28a

Witnesses to Creation of the Object vs. Witnesses to Loss of the Object: Bava Metzia 28a

Knowing the Length vs. Knowing the Width: Bava Metzia 28a

Knowing the Length & Width vs. Knowing the Hypotenuse: Bava Metzia 28a

Knowing Length & Width vs. Knowing the Weight: Bava Metzia 28a

Anything extraordinary, such as a fig-cake with a piece of pottery in it or a loaf with money inside: Bava Metzia 21a, 23a

Where the item may have been Placed there, and may not have been: Bava Metzia 25b

A type of knot as a Sign: Bava Metzia 20b, 23b, 25b

A sign which will be trampled: Bava Metzia 22b-23a

Location as sign: Bava Metzia 22b-23a, 23b, 25b

A sign which could have occurred on its own: Bava Metzia 23a

Weight/Measurement/Number of Items: Bava Metzia 23b, 25a

Type of slicing of meat or fish: Bava Metzia 23b

Items found in old piles of stones or old walls, with/without accumulated rust: Bava Metzia 25b-26a

Items found in the inner/outer parts of new walls: Bava Metzia 25b

Determining the side of a shared wall to which the item belongs, depending on the type of item and its location: Bava Metzia 26a

Where the hole in the wall is filled with items, and it slants from one side of the wall to another: Bava Metzia 26a

Items in the walls of a house which had been rented out: Bava Metzia 25b, 26a

Where one side of the wall was an inn: Bava Metzia 26a

Bundles of wheat in public/private property; differentiating with/without an Identifying Sign: Bava Metzia 22b-23a, 25a

Differentiating in the Above case, where they are laid out in a fallen/placed manner: Bava Metzia 23a

Bakery/Home baked loaves of bread, on public/private property: Bava Metzia 23a, 25a

Fruit in a vessel: Bava Metzia 24b

Fruit beside a vessel, in various alignments: Bava Metzia 25a

Scattered/Piled fruit: Bava Metzia 21a, 21b, 24b, 25a

Above, degree to which the fruit must be scattered: Bava Metzia 21a

Defining a layout which is probably [un-]intentional: Bava Metzia 21a

Cakes of Pressed Figs: Bava Metzia 21a, 21b

Strings of fish: Bava Metzia 21a, 23b

Sections of meat: Bava Metzia 21a, 23b

Fruit fallen from a tree which overhangs or abuts public property: Bava Metzia 21b

Birds tied up by an apparently specific location: Bava Metzia 25b

There is no acceptable sign on a coin itself, even one's name: Bava Metzia 25b

Gathered/Scattered coins: Bava Metzia 21a, 21b [2x], 24a-b, 24b-25a, 25a

Types of piles of the money: Bava Metzia 25a-b

Money in a wallet: Bava Metzia 24b

A Wallet: Bava Metzia 24b

Money beside a wallet, in various alignments: Bava Metzia 25a

Coins of various/identical sizes and stamps: Bava Metzia 25a

Bundles of sheared, [un-]marked wool: Bava Metzia 21a, 25a

Bundles of flax: Bava Metzia 21a

Flax beside a barrel: Bava Metzia 25a

Tongues of scarlet wool: Bava Metzia 21a, 21b

Old vessels: Bava Metzia 24b

New Vessels: Bava Metzia 21a, 23b, 24a

A vessel covered/revealed in a garbage heap: Bava Metzia 25b

Distinguishing in the above between small and large vessels: Bava Metzia 25b

Distinguishing in the above between a heap which is/isn't cleared regularly: Bava Metzia 25b

Barrels or Pitchers with/without a [specifically marked] seal, at the time before/after the opening of the merchants' barrels: Bava Metzia 23b, 25a

Saddle on a donkey: Bava Metzia 27b



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