If it is torn by beasts, let him bring it as evidence. He shall not make restitution for what has been torn.
These laws are, I. Concerning trusts, Exo 22:7-13. If a man deliver goods, suppose to a carrier to be conveyed, or to a warehouse-keeper to be preserved, or cattle to a farmer to be fed, upon a valuable consideration, and if a special confidence be reposed in the person they are lodged with, in case these goods be stolen or lost, perish or be damaged...
Commenting on Exodus 22:7-15
If it be torn in pieces,.... By some wild beast, at least as pretended: then let him bring it for witness; part of that which is torn, that it may be witness for him that it was torn, as in Amo 3:12 as Aben Ezra observes; and so the Jerusalem Targurn,"let him bring of the members of it a witness,''which would make it a clear...
If it be torn in pieces, [then] let him bring it [for] witness, [and] he shall not make good that which was torn. (f) He shall show some part of the beast or bring in witnesses.