Editing Mesechtas Bava Batra (section)

== Central Topics in the Tractate ==

==== Migo ====
Expanded article – '''Migo'''

One of the foundations of the tractate is migo.

When Rabbi Avraham Sofer, grandson of the Chasam Sofer, visited the Rebbe, he told him that he had a tradition passed down generation after generation from his grandfather the Chasam Sofer, that the deepest secrets of Torah are hidden in the Torah section of migo. The Rebbe responded that he too had received such a tradition.

Besides the principle of "what reason would he have to lie" mentioned in the Gemara as a clarification and assessment that a person is not lying, since he could have made a better claim, there is also a well-known approach mentioned frequently by later authorities, primarily the author of Baruch Ta'am, that migo is a power in the laws of claimants, allowing a person to use the power of the claim he could have made and apply it to his current claim. Some have defined this as the power of possession, since because he could have made another claim and had the power to win the property, he is considered a "muchzak" - a person who has property in his possession, for spiritually the property is in his possession and power, and by virtue of the well-known principle of "hamotzi mechavero" (the burden of proof is on the claimant), he wins the property.

==== Chazakas Shalosh Shanim (Three-Year Possession Claim) ====
Expanded article – '''Chazakas Shalosh Shanim'''

'''Chazakas Shalosh Shanim''' is a law from the laws of possession stating that when a person lives in or uses land for a period of three consecutive years, this usage gives him a presumption of ownership, meaning that the initial and certain assumption is that any person living on certain land in the manner of an owner, and no one protested against him, should be presumed at "first thought" to be the owner until proven otherwise.