Related%20passage for Bava Batra 2:5

מַרְחִיקִין אֶת הַסֻּלָּם מִן הַשּׁוֹבָךְ אַרְבַּע אַמּוֹת, כְּדֵי שֶׁלֹּא תִקְפֹּץ הַנְּמִיָּה, וְאֶת הַכֹּתֶל מִן הַמַּזְחִילָה אַרְבַּע אַמּוֹת, כְּדֵי שֶׁיְּהֵא זוֹקֵף אֶת הַסֻּלָּם. מַרְחִיקִין אֶת הַשּׁוֹבָךְ מִן הָעִיר חֲמִשִּׁים אַמָּה. וְלֹא יַעֲשֶׂה אָדָם שׁוֹבָךְ בְּתוֹךְ שֶׁלּוֹ, אֶלָּא אִם כֵּן יֶשׁ לוֹ חֲמִשִּׁים אַמָּה לְכָל רוּחַ. רַבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר, בֵּית אַרְבַּעַת כּוֹרִין, מְלֹא שֶׁגֶר הַיּוֹנָה. וְאִם לְקָחוֹ, אֲפִלּוּ בֵית רֹבַע, הֲרֵי הוּא בְחֶזְקָתוֹ:

A ladder must be distanced four cubits from a coop, so that a marten not jump (from it). [If one had a pigeon coop in his courtyard near a wall separating two courtyards, and his neighbor came to place a ladder against the wall, he must distance the ladder four cubits from the coop so that a marten not jump from the ladder to the coop and kill the pigeons.] And a wall (must be distanced) four cubits from a mazchilah, so that he can stand a ladder (there). [A mazchilah is a large gutter running along the side of a wall for the roof water to drain into. If one's wall with a mazchilah upon it runs along his neighbor's courtyard, he (his neighbor) must distance himself four cubits from it if he comes to build a wall alongside it, so that he (the other) can stand a ladder there to go up to repair the mazchilah, to clean it of the dirt and rocks that collect there and impair the flow of the water.] A coop is distanced fifty cubits from the city, [for the pigeons spoil the roof gardens]; and he may not set up a coop in his own (field) unless he has fifty cubits on all sides [so that the pigeons not spoil his neighbor's field.] R. Yehudah says: (He must have a distance of) four korin, [a beth kor on all sides. (A kor is thirty sa'ah)], a full [single] flight of a pigeon. But if one bought it (the coop) [as it is, with the land,] even if [there were around it] only [the distance of] a quarter [kav], it remains as it was, [the first having maintained it thus.]

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