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Kesubos 11:5-6

Kesubos 11:5

If court appraisers over- or under-valued property by a factor of one-sixth, the sale is void. Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel says the sale is valid because, if it weren’t, how does the court have any more power than other appraisers? If the court announced an estate sale, then even if something worth 100 sold for 200 or vice versa, the sale is valid.

Kesubos 11:6

A minor orphan girl married off by her family who refuses the marriage, a woman prohibited to her husband rabbinically as a second-degree relative, and a woman with congenital infertility do not have a kesubah, they are not paid for the use of the proceeds of their property by their husbands, and they do not receive support or replacement of worn-out property. If the husband married her fully aware of her congenital infertility, she does have a kesubah. If a Kohein Gadol married a widow, or a regular kohein married a divorcee or a woman who performed chalitzah, if a regular Jew married a mamzeres or a Gibeonite, or if a mamzer or a Gibeonite married a regular Jewess – in all of these cases, the woman has a kesubah.

Author: Rabbi Jack Abramowitz