Quoting%20commentary for Bava Batra 7:4

If one says to his neighbor: "I am selling you half a field," they "fatten" between themselves, and he (the buyer) takes his half of field. [They designate the "fat spot" in the field and the seller takes it, the buyer having the lower hand. And, corresponding to it, he gives the buyer inferior land amounting to the value of the "fat spot" taken by the seller. For when he said: "I am selling you half a field," his intent was the value of half a field. So that (for example) if it (the field) were one hundred cubits for one hundred dinars, and there were in it a "fat spot" of thirty cubits worth fifty dinars, the seller takes it and gives the buyer seventy cubits of the (relatively) inferior ground for fifty dinars. The (practical) difference — A man prefers one measure of superior soil to two measures of inferior, though the price be the same.] (If he said:) "I am selling you half in the south, they "fatten" between themselves, and he takes his half in the south. [The entire field is not assessed as (it is) in the first instance, but the value of half the field in the south is assessed, whether superior or inferior, and corresponding to the value of the half in the south, the seller gives the buyer (land of) inferior quality wherever he wishes (in that field). For the buyer has the lower hand, and his (the seller's) intent might have been: "I am selling you the value of the southern half wherever I wish in my land."] And he [the seller] takes it upon himself [to allocate] space [in the half-field that he bought] for a fence, a rut and a small rut, [both of them behind the fence on the outside, so that an animal not jump (over the fence) into the field. For if he made (just) a rut, and not a small rut, since the rut is wide, it could back off in it and jump to the other side. And if he made (just) a small rut and not a rut, since it is small, it could stand on its edge and jump. And what is (the distance) between a rut and a small rut? A handbreadth.] How large is a rut? Six handbreadths. And a small rut? Three.

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