3,809. Selling a House in a Walled City

Hilchos Shemittah v’Yoveil 11:21

A man who inherits his wife’s property is different from the preceding cases. While a man inheriting his wife’s property is a Rabbinic enactment, the Sages strengthened the rule as if it were a Biblical law, with the result that the man need not return the property to his wife’s family in yoveil. If he inherited a family burial plot, this should be returned to the wife’s family because failure to do so would be a disgrace to them. The wife’s family must pay the man the value of the property minus the value of her grave, since the man is obligated to bury his wife.

Hilchos Shemittah v’Yoveil 12:1

One who sells a house in a walled city may redeem it for twelve months from the date of sale. He may do so whenever he wishes, even on the date of sale itself. When he redeems it, he refunds all of the buyer’s money without deducting anything for the time it was in the buyer’s possession.