Translation:Shulchan Aruch/Choshen Mishpat/144

Paragraph 1- If two partners took possession of one field for six years, where one consumed years 1, 3 and 5, and the other consumed years 2, 4 and 6, neither of the partners will obtain a presumption. If they created this arrangement via a document, once three years have passed they will have obtained a presumption. Similarly, if they claim they purchased this field from so and so who made them a sale-document, once three years has passed, they will obtain a presumption. The same rules would apply to taking possession of a slave in this manner.

Paragraph 2- If an individual consumed one year and sold the field to another, who also consumed one year, who then also sold it to a third person, and both sales were via a document, they would obtain a presumption. If the sale was without a document, they would not obtain a presumption.

Paragraph 3- If the father consumed a year and died, and the son inherited the property and consumed two years, if the father consumed two years and the son consumed one year or if the father consumed a year, the son consumed a year and a purchaser that acquired the land from the son consumed a year, they would obtain a presumption so long as the purchase was via a document.

Paragraph 4- If a possessor consumed one year while the original owner was alive and two years in front of the son after the father had died, two years in front of the father and one year in front of the son or one year in front of the father, one year in front of the son and one year in front of the son’s purchaser, the possessor would obtain a presumption so long as the son had sold this field as part of a package on all his fields and thus the possessor was not aware it was sold, which is why he was not careful to retain his document. If the son sold this field on its own, however, there is no greater form of objection, so long as it was sold with a document. There are those who say the sale is an objection even if it was sold without a document.