1. This entire paragraph is from Qiddušin 1:4, fol. 60b. Since at the end it treats a question from there which was not introduced here, it is clear that the text here is secondary.
2. Mishnah Baba meṣi‘a 3:3.
3. Since the lessee does not have to pay for acts of God; Note 120.
4. The borrower has to pay for every defect that develops; Note 120. Agreed to in the Babli, Baba meṣi‘a 29b. In 96b, this is a matter of dispute; the Tanna R. Yose holds there that the borrower pays the original owners.
5. Otherwise the lessee violates the terms of his lease and becomes liable for every defect which develops. In the Babli, Baba meṣi‘a 36a, this is a matter of dispute which is decided (36b) in conformity with the Yerushalmi.
6. Tosephta Baba meṣi‘a 3:1 (the first sentence only), also quoted in Baba meṣi‘a 3:3 (9a 1.51).
7. Mishnah Baba meṣi‘a 7:13.
8. If he deviated from the original terms; even if he later subleased with permission (unless he explicitly requested immunity also for the later change.)
9. Can the original owner of the cow go to court against the borrower from the lessee to have him swear that the cow died a natural death and, if the borrower refuses to swear, collect the value of the cow from the lessee, or can the borrower claim that he is involved only with the lessee and is immune to suits from third parties?
10. The original owner, since the borrower is a business associate of his lessee.
11. The first Mishnah Ketubot 9:5 and the second Baba Meṣi‘a 3:3 with its Tosephta can be combined.
12. Cf. Note 127; editio princeps reads here “that he cannot make her swear.” But the text is very clear, the fact that the husband freed his wife from having to swear about her fiduciary duties does not absolve her from responsibility and having to swear if she deviated from the framework of these duties.
13. The wife can appoint others to fulfill part of her duties (in the example given, her adult sons from a prior marriage) only with her husband’s explicit agreement; they have to swear unless especially exempted (interpretation of Tosaphot 86b, s. v. נדר; Sefer Ha‘iṭṭur 23a, Note ג.)
14. This refers back to Mishnah Baba meṣi‘a 3:1. Even if the original owner gave permission to the lessee to lend out his cow, the lessee is responsible for paying his lease the whole time the cow is in the hands of the non-paying borrower.
15. Is this true even if the original owners borrowed it back?
16. In that case, the lessee does not have to pay.
17. This refers to the problem dealt with in Qiddušin 60b 1. 48: Rav Jehudah sent to R. Eleazar: A person having responsibility who handed it over to another (and something happened, who is responsible)? He said to him, the first one has to pay. Rebbi Joḥanan said, the second one has to pay; Rebbi Simeon ben Laqish said, the second one has to pay. (The following argument shows that one has to read that R. Joḥanan holds the first one has to pay.) In Qiddušin there follows the discussion of this paragraph, which shows that R. Yannai and R. Ḥiyya (the Elder) both agree with R. Eleazar and R. Joḥanan.
The Babli, Baba qama 11b, attributes to R. Eleazar the opinion that the first one is free from paying if he did not have to pay under the original arrangement; in practice it is decided that the first one always has to pay unless the original owner agreed to the new arrangements.
18. The quote should have been: R. Eleazar says in the name of the Elder R. Ḥiyya, R. Joḥanan says in the name of R. Yannai (which is the quote of the latter in Baba qama 115a.)
19. A lengthy discussion of this text is in R. Bezalel Ashkenazi, שיטה מקובצת כתובות (reprint Tel Aviv, n/d) p. 221 a/b. However, probably the text is not based on an original ms. since it is Babylonized, remarkable for such a careful author.