Yosef Karo

“ Paragraph 8-When do we say the lender may collect from unencumbered lands? Where the witnesses did not intentionally predate the document. There are those that say that witnesses are believed on this issue, even if we have a copy of their signatures from another source. The same applies to any error that witnesses often make and they are believed to say they erred. There are those that disagree. If, however, the witnesses intentionally predated the document, the lender can certainly not even collect from unencumbered land because the witnesses are invalid witnesses who signed falsely. ”

“ When they write the place of documentation, they write, “this is what so and so told us and we wrote it in such and such place.” If, however, they are writing the place where the testimony was handed over, they write “so and so told us” or “we made a kinyan from so and so in such and such place and we wrote and signed it and handed it over to so and so.” ”