תלמוד על כתובות 13:2

MISHNAH: Somebody had robbed a field which subsequently was taken by discharged veterans⁶⁰“Retired Roman veterans who received a provincial’s property”, from Latin missicius, missitius, adj., “discharged from military service” (M. Gil).
In a Genizah ms. of the Mishnah: “If armed robbers took it.” Parallel sources leave no doubt that the Leiden ms. text is the correct one.. If it is a provincial plague, he may tell him: Here is your property before you⁶¹If the properties of many provincials had been taken, the robber can tell the original owner that it is up to him to try to get indemnification.. But if it was because of the robber⁶²If the veterans were directed to take the land because it had come to the attention of the authorities that it was in the wrong hands, the robber has to indemnify the original owner with another field of equal value., he has to give him a field. If a river had washed it away, he may say to him: Here is your property before you⁶³Since it also would have been damaged in the original owner’s hand..
He who robbed from another, or took a loan from him, or accepted a deposit in a built-up area cannot give it back to him in the desert. [If it was given] with the intent to depart for the desert, he can give it back to him in the desert.