Celui qui est suspect en ce qui concerne [l'observation] de Shevi'it n'est pas automatiquement suspect en ce qui concerne les dîmes. Celui qui est suspect au sujet de la dîme n'est pas automatiquement suspect au sujet de Shevi'it . Celui qui est suspect sur les deux est suspect sur la pureté. Il y en a un qui est suspect quant à la pureté mais qui n'est suspect à aucun des autres. La règle est que quiconque soupçonne quelque chose ne peut en juger ni en témoigner.
Tosefta Demai
One who sends fruits to his friend, and he [presumably the friend] decides to return it, he comports himself [vis-a-vis the returned fruit] according to how it was (i.e., its prior status). Abba Shaul says, "I would be concerned lest it be switched." Rabbi Shimon ben Gamaliel says, "If he has a sharecropper who knows how to tithe, but he (i.e., the landowner) does not trust him as to tithes, and he (i.e., the sharecropper) brought his fruits to him, and he said, yours (i.e., your share) are tithed, he is believed [in this instance]." Rebbi says, "He is not trustworthy [according to the principle] that one who is suspected regarding [one] matter may neither adjudicate nor testify" (Bekh. 30a:3).
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Tosefta Demai
An am ha'aretz who said, "This is untithed and this is Terumah," [or] "This is certainly untithed and this is Demai," even though they said that a suspect in a case can neither judge nor testify in [that case], we do not suspect a [fellow] Jew on such a thing [and he may be believed].
