Translation:Shulchan Aruch/Choshen Mishpat/217

Paragraph 1- If one sells a water channel in his field to another to irrigate an irrigated field, he must give the buyer a channel that is two amos wide, and one amah on each side for its banks. If he sold him a channel to irrigate with an irrigation tool, he must give a channel that is one amah wide and a half an amah on each side for its banks.

Paragraph 2- The owner of the field may plant trees in these banks but not may not sow other plants because other plans moisten the earth and ruin the water channel.

Paragraph 3- If the water channel’s banks collapsed, the owner of the channel may fix it with the dirt of that field because that was the implicit condition when the seller sold a channel in his field.

Paragraph 4- If one sells a path to another in his field and the path he sold is private, he must give him a path with a width of 2.5 amos to allow the buyer to place a donkey with its load along the length of the path. This assumes there are no walls surrounding it. If there were walls surrounding the path, however, he must give more. If the seller sold a path between cities, he must give five amos for the width of the path. If he sold a public path, he must give 16 amos. If he sold an area used for a return from burial, he must give four kav.

Paragraph 5- If one tells another he is selling a pit and its walls, he must give a wall with a width of three tefachim.

Paragraph 6- If one sells another a place for burial, or if one contracts with another to create a place for burial, he would make a cave and open eight graves into the cave; three graves on each side and two graves opposite the entrance of the carve. The cave should be four amos by six amos. Each grave would be four amos long, six tefachim wide and seven tefachim tall. This results in having 1.5 amos between each of the side graves and two amos between the middle graves.

Paragraph 7- If one sells his graveyard, the path to his graveyard, the area where they stand following the burial and eulogize, the seller’s family can come and bury the seller against the buyer’s will and pay for the value of the grave they used.