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Halakhah for Shekalim 7:2

מָעוֹת שֶׁנִּמְצְאוּ לִפְנֵי סוֹחֲרֵי בְּהֵמָה, לְעוֹלָם מַעֲשֵׂר. בְּהַר הַבַּיִת, חֻלִּין. בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם בִּשְׁעַת הָרֶגֶל, מַעֲשֵׂר. וּבִשְׁאָר כָּל יְמוֹת הַשָּׁנָה, חֻלִּין:

Money found before (i.e., in the marketplace of) animal sellers is always ma'aser [i.e., even the entire year (and not only on the festival). For the festival pilgrims do not manage to spend all of their ma'aser sheni money on the festival and they leave it with their relatives or close friends to eat the entire year in Jerusalem. And the essential mitzvah of eating ma'aser sheni is (through) peace-offerings. Therefore, most of the beasts sold in Jerusalem all the days of the year are bought with ma'aser money. And even though the money might have fallen from the sellers and already been redeemed, still, since the buyers are in the majority, many people buying from one merchant, we say that it is the buyers' money and was not redeemed, and, therefore, ma'aser.] (If it were found) in the Temple Mount, it is chullin. [Even on the festival, when most of the money that men carry is ma'aser money, still, it is ruled to be chullin, for we rule according to the majority of the year and assume that it fell before the festival.] In Jerusalem [not in the animal market], during the festival, it is ma'aser. [We do not rule according to the majority of the year, for the streets of Jerusalem were swept every day, and if it had fallen before then, it would have been found.] The other days of the year it is chullin. [But the Temple Mount was not swept. For, being high, the wind swept it and removed all of the dust. (Also, it was forbidden to enter the Temple Mount with dust on one's feet, so that dust did not abound there.)]

Sefer HaChinukh

From the laws of the commandment is that which they, may their memory be blessed, said (Pesachim 82b) that included in notar and piggul are all disqualified [sacrifices], such that all of them are also burned. And a sacrifice that is definitely disqualified or made piggul is burned immediately. But if there is a doubt, its form is left to be altered, and it is burnt afterwards (Mishneh Torah, Laws of Sacrifices Rendered Unfit 19:2). And any meat that is found in the [Temple] yard as limbs is burnt-offerings - the understanding of which is that we treat them like burnt-offerings; and if it is found as pieces, they are sin-offerings; and that which is found in Jerusalem is a peace-offering (Mishnah Shekalim 7:2). And the difference that comes out of this is if one transgressed and ate from them, he brings his atonement according to this assumption. But they, may their memory be blessed, said about all [of them], "Let their form be altered and [then] go out to the House of Burning, lest [they were] notar." And we only burn notar during the day, as it is stated, "on the third day, it shall be brunt with fire" (Pesachim 3a). And even though the peace-offerings are forbidden to eat from the beginning of the second night, we only burn them during the day. And the rest of its details are elucidated in Pesachim and at the end of Terumah (see Mishneh Torah, Laws of Sacrifices Rendered Unfit 19).
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