Talmud for Ketubot 1:7
הִיא אוֹמֶרֶת מֻכַּת עֵץ אָנִי, וְהוּא אוֹמֵר, לֹא כִי, אֶלָּא דְרוּסַת אִישׁ אָתְּ, רַבָּן גַּמְלִיאֵל וְרַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר אוֹמְרִים, נֶאֱמֶנֶת. וְרַבִּי יְהוֹשֻׁעַ אוֹמֵר, לֹא מִפִּיהָ אָנוּ חַיִּין, אֶלָּא הֲרֵי זוֹ בְחֶזְקַת דְּרוּסַת אִישׁ, עַד שֶׁתָּבִיא רְאָיָה לִדְבָרֶיהָ:
If she says: "I am a mukkath etz," and he says: "No, you were 'trodden' [i.e., lived with] by a man," R. Gamliel and R. Eliezer say: She is believed. And R. Yehoshua says: We do not live by her mouth, but she is assumed to have been 'trodden by a man' unless she brings proof for her words.
Jerusalem Talmud Sanhedrin
53The same text is found in Ketubot 1:1 (Notes 43–46,כ) and Besah 5:2 (64 l. 59,ב ). Rebbi Ḥizqiah, Rebbi Aḥa, said in the name of Rebbi Abbahu: It is forbidden to judge money matters on Friday. Does not a Mishnah object: “Therefore one does not judge [criminal matters] on Sabbath eve or holiday eve”? Hence, one judges money matters! Also, Rebbi Ḥiyya stated thus: One judges money matters on Friday but not criminal matters. One is for practice, the other for action53a“Practice” means “code of practice”, “action” means actual procedure. The parallel sources read: “one is for practice, the other for words of Torah”, meaning that in theory one may judge but in practice one does not..
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