orced, or enticed, or uttered a
slander, and every act of the tribunal, have no release. "He who lent on
security, or delivered his bills to the tribunal?" "There is no release
for him."

3. The Defence(85) (for the poor) has no release. This is one of the
things which the old Hillel ruled. When he saw that the people refrained
from mutual loans, and transgressed what is written in the law, "Beware
that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart,"(86) etc., Hillel ruled
the Defence.

4. This is the substance of the Defence, "I hand over to you judges such
and such men in such a place, that every debt which belongs to me I may
collect, whenever I please." And the judges or witnesses sealed it below.

5. The Defence written before the Sabbatical year is valid, but afterward
it is disallowed. Bills written before the Sabbatical year are disallowed,
but afterward they are valid. He who borrows from five persons must write
a Defence for each of them. If five persons borrow from one, he writes but
one Defence for all of them.

6. Men must not write a Defence save only on ground. "If he have none?"
"The lender may present him with however little from his own field." "If
he had a field in pledge in a city?" "He may write on it the Defence."
Rabbi Huzpith said, "a man may write it on the property of his wife; and
for orphans on the property of their guardians."

7. "Beehives?" R. Eliezer said, "they are as ground, and men may write on
them a Defence, and they contract no legal uncleanness in their proper
place, but he who takes honey out of them on the Sabbath is liable (for a
sin-offering). The Sages, however, say they are not as ground, and men
must not write on them a Defence, and they do contract legal defilement in
their place, and he who takes honey out of them on the Sabbath is free."

8. "He who paid his debt on the Sabbatical year?" "The lender must say to
him, 'I release thee.' " "When he said it to him?" "Even so, he may
receive it from him, as is said, and this is the manner of the
release."(87) It is like the slayer who was banished to the city of
refuge, and the men of the city wished to honor him. He must say to them,
"I am a murderer." They say to him, "Even so." He may receive the honor
from them, as is said, "and this is the case of the slayer."(88)

9. "He who pays a debt in the Sabbatical year?" "The spirit of the Sages
reposes on him."(89) "He who borrowed from a proselyte, when his
children(90) becam