Delivering and Receiving a Bill of Divorce
Please note that within this document, "Get" refers to a Bill of Divorce. To differentiate from the English verb "get," the term for the Bill will be Capitalized.
Verification of the Get's Validity by the Deliverer
Status of Bavel in requiring Verification for an overseas Get: Gittin 6a
Whether verification that the Get was written/signed for these specific people is required, when it is brought from various locales to various locales: Gittin 2a-6b
Whether verification that the Get was written/signed for these specific people is required, where two people bring the Get: 2b, 5a, 16b [2x], 17a
What happens if verification that the Get was written/signed for these specific people was required, and wasn't done: Gittin 5a, 5b, 15a; Bava Metzia 55b
Where the Get is brought by two people, and one verifies the writing and one the signing: Gittin 16a-b
If the verification was done only in part, or by different messengers on different elements of the writing: Gittin 15a
If part has verification by the messenger, and the rest has two witnesses or the deliverer plus a witness: Gittin 15a-b
If there are two verifiers on the writing and one on the signing: Gittin 16b, 17a
If there are two verifiers on the signing and one on the writing, but witnesses of the Get were also its deliverers: Gittin 17a
Requiring verification where the Get was brought on a boat on the Rivers of Israel or in the Mediterranean territorial waters of Israel: Gittin 7b-8a
Requiring verification where the Get was brought from Akko: Gittin 8a
Requiring verification where the Get was brought from Surya: Gittin 8a
Requiring verification where the Get was brought from Borsif: Succah 34b
The Deliverer
Whether the delivery must be under such circumstances that the deliverer could return to the sender to verify that it had been sent, while still in the role of proxy: Gittin 24a
Equating sending someone to give the Get, with telling him to acquire the Get for the wife: Gittin 11b
Whether a woman may bring her own Get, even if she is coming from an area from which the deliverer is required to verify that the Get was written for the involved parties: Gittin 3a, 5a [2x], 5b, 23b-24a, 24a
Whether the husband may be the deliverer of the Get, even if he is coming from an area from which the deliverer is required to verify that the Get was written for the involved parties: Gittin 3a, 5a [2x]
For a husband to revoke a proxy after sending him to deliver the Get: Gittin 9b, 11b
If the husband dies after sending the proxy: Gittin 9b, 13a-b
For a Blind Person to deliver it: Gittin 23a
For a cheresh to deliver it: Gittin 5a, 9a, 23a
For a shoteh to deliver it: Gittin 5a, 9a, 23a
For a Minor to deliver it: Gittin 5a, 9a, 23a
For one who isn't Jewish to deliver it: Gittin 23a [2x]
Even the 5 relatives who aren't trusted to testify on her husband's death are trusted to verify her Get: Gittin 23b-24a
The Delivery
Having witnesses: Gittin 3b
How many people must be present: Gittin 3a [2x], 5b
Requiring that the witnesses read the Get: Gittin 19b
Whether the Get must leave his hand to her or to the proxy: Gittin 20b, 24a
Requires full transfer of the Get, without any link back to the husband: Bava Metzia 7a
Acquiring a Get is not considered beneficial, to allow a Proxy to receive it for her without her knowledge: Gittin 11b, Bava Metzia 12a
Acquiring the Get by acquiring the husband's eved while he holds it: Gittin 21a
Acquring the Get by acquiring part of the husband's property, with the Get in it: Gittin 21a, 24a
The Get can be given to a woman on any part of her property: Bava Metzia 10b
If the Get was written on an item known to have been his, but now found in her property: Gittin 20b-21a
Throwing a Get to a woman who is moving: Bava Metzia 9b
Giving the Get but claiming the paper on which it is written for himself: Gittin 20b
Giving the Get but demanding that she return some portion of the paper: Gittin 20b
What happens if a proxy is sent to carry out a mission - hiring employees or delivering a Get - and he misrepresents his mission, and the people with whom he is interacting say, "We will go with the mission as expressed by the person who sent you.": Bava Metzia 76a-b
The Receipt
Whether her assent is/isn't necessary: Yevamot 112b; Gittin 21a; Kiddushin 5a, 5b, 9b, 41a; Bava Metzia 11b
Power of the wife/husband to establish a proxy for receipt of the Get: Gittin 21a; Kiddushin 23b, 41a, 41a-42a
Power of a wife to establish a proxy to receive the Get from her husband's proxy: Gittin 24a
A father accepting a Get (from kiddushin) for his daughter while she is a minor (and the possibility of him doing so against her will): Ketuvot 46b, 47a, 65b; Gittin 21a; Kiddushin 3b, 10a
A eved as proxy for receipt of the Get: Gittin 23a-b
Whether a woman must receive the Get in her hand, specifically, or not: Bava Metzia 56b
The woman must be beside her property, when the Get is put there: Bava Metzia 11b
Validity of receipt of a Get if the woman is in one yard and the Get is in an adjacent yard: Eruvin 92b
Determination of the Independence of an Area uses the same standards as that of an Area for Forbidden Transport of items on Shabbos: Shabbat 80a
Whether ability to acquire a Get via Territory is like establishing a proxy or is an extension of one's personal power of Acquisition: Bava Metzia 10b-11a
