R' Elazar ben Parta said three things before the Sages, and they confirmed his words: Concerning [the people in] a city besieged by an army, and [those in] a ship storm tossed at sea, and one who goes to be tried —- they are presumed to be alive. But [concerning people in] a city captured by an army, and [those in] a ship lost at sea, and one who goes to be executed —- the stringencies of the living and the stringencies of the dead are applied to them: The daughter of a non-Kohen [married] to a Kohen and the daughter of a Kohen [married] to a non-Kohen may not eat of terumah.

One who was bringing a get within Eretz Yisrael and became ill may send it with another. But if he had said to him: “Take from her such and such a thing for me,” he may not send it with another, for he does not want his deposit to be in the hand of another.