תלמוד על גיטין 7:3

If someone said, field X I gave to Y, it is given to him, it should be his, Y should inherit my property, Y should take possession of my property, he did not say anything¹⁷¹Title to property cannot be transferred by simple declaration; cf. Mishnah Qiddušin 1:5. The Tosephta disagrees, 9:12. The Tosephta text is explained away by the Babli, Giṭṭin40b.. It should be given to him as a gift, Rebbi says, he acquired¹⁷²If this was a death-bed declaration., but the Sages say, he did not acquire; but one forces the heirs to fulfill the deceased’s words.¹⁷³Babli Giṭṭin 14b,15a,40a; Ketubot 70a. It was stated¹⁷⁴Tosephta 9:14.: Rebbi Simeon ben Gamliel says, also if one writes διέθεμεν¹⁷⁵“I disposed by will”, from Greek “to dispose” (H. M. Pineles). A. Gulak, Tarbiz 1 fasc. 4 (1931) 144–146 has noted that the expression τάδε διεθέμην is used in Egyptian Greek deeds; also cf. R. Taubenschlag, The Law of Greco-Roman Egypt in the Light of the Papyri, New York 1944, p. 143. Since the expression is a legal Greek term, its use characterizes a valid deed even though the corresponding use of the past in Hebrew was declared invalid as statement of a deed. (S. Lieberman, Tosefta kiFshutah Bava batra p. 441, wants to infer that Rabban Simeon ben Gamliel validates also the Hebrew נָתַתִּי; this seems unjustified.) in Greek it is a gift. Rebbi Ḥanin in the name of Rebbi Joshua ben Levi: I turned to all linguists to know what is διέθεμεν and nobody told me anything¹⁷⁶They were not acquainted with Greek legalese..