A captive woman [i.e., the wife of a Cohein, who had been taken captive,] eats terumah [and we do not fear that the gentile lived with her and rendered her a zonah, to whom terumah is forbidden.] These are the words of R. Dossa. And the sages say: There is a captive woman that eats, and a captive woman that does not eat. How so? A woman who says: "I was taken captive, but I am clean" eats. For "the tongue that forbids" [i.e., her saying "I was taken captive"] is the tongue that permits, [when she says "but I am clean." ] And if there were witnesses [that she was taken captive], and she says "I am clean," she does not eat.
Tosefta Demai
[A seller who] said "this is mine (i.e., from my fields)," they are liable to tithe. [A seller who said] "it is tithed," they are believed because the mouth that forbade is the [same] mouth that permitted (cf. Dem. 6:11). [Someone who] sold produce in a year [when one is obligated in the laws] of second tithe, and said, "[This produce has been separated from] second tithe," they are believed. [Someone who] sold produce in a year [when one is obligated in the laws] of the poor man's tithe, and said, "[This produce was separated from tithes during a year of] second tithe," they are not believed. [Someone who] sold produce in a year of second tithe and said, "[This produce was separated from tithes during a year of] poor man's tithe," they are believed, because the mouth that forbade is the [same] mouth that permitted.
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Tosefta Kiddushin
A daughter of a male disqualified priest (halal) is disqualified from [marrying into] the priesthood forever. Rabbi (sic!, based on Ehrfurt manuscript) says: A daughter of a male convert is like the daughter of a male halal and disqualified from the priesthood. An isah is disqualified from the priesthood (see previous halakhah); if she [the isah] got married to a Yisrael, her daughter is fit [to marry into] the priesthood. A captive woman is disqualified from the priesthood; if she got married to a Yisrael, her daughter is fit for the priesthood. A freed handmaid is disqualified from the priesthood; if she is married to a Yisrael, her daughter is fit for the priesthood. It turns out that Yisrael is a mikveh for priests [since the daughter of a pesulah with a male Yisrael is no longer pesulah] and a handmaid is a mikveh for all disqualifications.
