If
one sets fire to a large house, he pays for everything inside it. The house owner
needs to take an oath about the value, and has to be reasonably expected to
have such items.
One is liable for direct or immediate damages but not indirect or delayed ones.
If
a camel laden with flax passed through the street and its flax
protruded into a shop and was ignited by the shopkeeper's lamp and set
fire to a large towner, the owner of the camel is liable; if the
shopkeeper put his lamp outside, the shopkeeper is liable. Rabbi Yehuda
says that for Hanukkah light he is not liable.
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