One who puts aside produce to separate terumah and tithes with them, [or] money to separate the second tithe with them, may separate with them on the assumption that they are still in existence. If they were lost, he must be cautious regarding a period of twenty-four hours —- [these are] the words of R' Elazar ben Shamua.  R' Yehudah says: At three points in time the wine must be examined: at the time of the east wind [which is] after the Festival, with the emergence of the budding berries, and at the time that liquid enters the unripe grapes.

[If] one sent a get to his wife, and encountered the agent, or sent an agent after him, and he said to him: “The get that I gave you is void,” it is void. [If] he reached his wife first or sent an agent to her, and he said to her: “The get that I sent you is void,” it is void. If [the above occurred] after she received the get, he can no longer nullify it.

Originally, he would convene a court elsewhere and nullify it. Rabban Gamliel the Elder decreed that they should not do this, for the sake of the general good.  Originally, he would change his name and her name, the name of his town and the name of her town, but Rabban Gamliel the Elder decreed that he write: “The man, So-and-so, and any name he has”; “the woman, So-and-so, and any name she has,” for the sake of the general good.

A widow is not paid from the property of orphans except with an oath. They ceased from imposing an oath upon her, [so] Rabban Gamliel the Elder decreed that she should make a neder prohibiting whatever the orphans wish, and collect her kesubah.  Witnesses sign on a get for the sake of the general good. Hillel decreed [the] prozbul for the sake of the general good.