If one person says to another – you owe me 100 dinar, and the other says, I only owe you 50, I don’t know ow about the other half – which means he can’t swear, because he’s not sure… he has to pay the entire amount. That case has a parallel in our mishnah… plus, if you borrow a cow and also the cow owner’s services, the question is when is the borrower (or renter) liable? What if there are several stints of borrowing?
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