Related%20passage for Bava Metzia 1:3

הָיָה רוֹכֵב עַל גַּבֵּי בְהֵמָה וְרָאָה אֶת הַמְּצִיאָה, וְאָמַר לַחֲבֵרוֹ תְּנֶהָ לִי, נְטָלָהּ וְאָמַר אֲנִי זָכִיתִי בָהּ, זָכָה בָהּ. אִם מִשֶּׁנְּתָנָהּ לוֹ אָמַר אֲנִי זָכִיתִי בָהּ תְּחִלָּה, לֹא אָמַר כְּלוּם:

If he were riding on a beast and saw a metziah (a lost object), and he said to his friend: "Give it to me" — If he (the friend) took it and said: "I acquired it" (for myself), he acquires it. [But if he the rider) said: "Acquire it for me," the rider acquires it, and the other cannot say: "I acquired it" (for myself)]. If after he gave it to him he said: "I acquired it first," he has said nothing. [For this one (the rider) who withdrew it from his hand, acquired it; and as long as it was in the hand of the one who picked it up, it was hefker (ownerless property)].

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