משנה: הַמּוֹכֵר אֶת הֶחָצֵר מָכַר בָּתִּים בּוֹרוֹת שִׁיחִין וּמְעָרוֹת אֲבָל לֹא אֶת הַמִּטַּלְטְּלִין. בִּזְמַן שֶׁאָמַר לוֹ הִיא וְכָל־מַה שֶׁבְּתוֹכָהּ הֲרֵי כולָּן מְכוּרִין. בֵּין כָּךְ וּבֵין כָּךְ לֹא מָכַר לֹא אֶת הַמֶּרְחָץ וְלֹא אֶת בֵּית הַבַּד שֶׁבְּתוֹכָהּ. רִבִּי לִעֶזֶר אוֹמֵר הַמּוֹכֵר אֶת הֶחָצֵר לֹא מָכַר אֶלָּא אֲוֵירָהּ שֶׁל חָצֵר. MISHNAH: He who sells a courtyard²⁵If a person be able to sell a courtyard, clearly he is the sole proprietor. In common speech, if one refers to “a courtyard” one understands the compound, all the houses accessible from the courtyard. sold houses, cisterns, ditches, and caves but nothing movable. But if he said to him, “it and all it contains,” all is sold. In neither case did he sell the bath house or the olive press standing in it²⁶Since very few courtyards contain either a bathhouse or an olive press, the person acquiring the courtyard will not think of these unless they are mentioned in the contract.. Rebbi Eliezer says, he who sells a courtyard only sold its airspace²⁷This means, the area exposed to the sky, nothing built-up, since only the open area is called “courtyard” in exact speech. M. Gil [(1977) 46 תרביץ] reads the sentence as: “He who sells a compound only sells its door.”.

הלכה: הַמּוֹכֵר אֶת הֶחָצֵר כול׳. רִבִּי יִצְחָק שָׁאַל. עַל דַּעֲתּוֹן דְּרַבָּנִן. מָכַר לוֹ חָצֵר סְתָם מָכַר בָּתִּים בּוֹרוֹת שִׁיחִין וּמְעָרוֹת אֲבָל לֹא הַמִּטַּלְטְּלִין. אוֹ מָכַר לוֹ אֲפִילוּ הַמִּטַּלְטְּלִין. רִבִּי יִצְחָק שָׁאַל. עַל דַּעֲתֵּיהּ דְּרִבִּי לִעֶזֶר. מָכַר לוֹ חָצֵר סְתָם לא מָכַר אֶלָּא אֲוֵיר הֶחָצֵר. בִּזְמַן שֶׁאָמַר לוֹ. הִיא וְכָל־מַה שֶׁבְּתוֹכָהּ. מָכַר בָּתִּים בּוֹרוֹת שִׁיחִין וּמְעָרוֹת אֲבָל לֹא הַמִּיטַּלְטְּלִין. אוֹ אֲפִילוּ הַמִּטַּלְטְּלִין. אָמַר רִבִּי יוֹחָנָן. זְנָהּ אַייְתִיתֵיהּ מִדְּבֵית לֵוִי. הָיוּ שָׁם (חֲצֵירוֹת) [חֲנוּיוֹת] פְּתוּחוֹת לִפְנִים מְכוּרוֹת. פְּתוּחוֹת לַחוּץ אֵין מְכוּרוֹת. לִפְנִים וְלַחוּץ אֵילּוּ וָאֵילּוּ מְכוּרוֹת. HALAKHAH: “He who sells a courtyard,” etc. Rebbi Isaac asked: According to the rabbis, he who sells a courtyard without specifications sold houses, cisterns, ditches, and caves but nothing movable. Or maybe he also sold movables²⁸He asks how the Mishnah should be understood. Is it to be understood the way it was translated, or does it mean that if he indicated that he was selling the courtyard together with the buildings bordering on it, then by implication he excluded movables, but if he mentioned only the courtyard, everything, including movables, was included? The same question may be asked about the formulation of R. Eliezer’s statement.? Rebbi Isaac asked: According to Rebbi Eliezer, he who sells a courtyard without specifications only sold the airspace. But if he said, “it and all it contains,” he sold houses, cisterns, ditches, and caves but nothing movable. Or maybe he also sold movables? Rebbi Joḥanan said, the following I brought from the House of Levi²⁹Tosephta 3:1, Babli 67a.: “If there were (courtyards)³⁰Reading of L. [stores]³¹Reading of E, the Constantinople edition, the Tosephta, and the Babli; required by the context. open to the inside³²Accessible to buyers only from the courtyard., they are sold; to the outside, they are not sold; to the inside and the outside, they are all sold.”