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Shulchan Arukh, Orach Chayim 437
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<b>המשכיר בית לחבירו על מי חל חובת ביעור. ובו ד סעיפים:</b><br>המשכיר בית לחבירו לצורך י"ד וממנו ואילך וקנהו באחת מהדרכים ששכירות קרקע נקנה בו אם עד שלא מסר לו המפתח חל י"ד על המשכיר לבדוק ואם משמסר לו המפתח חל י"ד על השוכר לבדוק:
One Who Rents to His Fellow, Upon Whom Does the Obligation to Destroy Chametz Fall. Containg 4 paragraphs: When a person rents a house to a tenant before the onset of the night of the 14th of Nissan, and the tenant acquired [the rights to live in the house] through one of the processes through which the rental of a home is validated, if before he hands him the key, the responsibility falls on the landlord to inspect, and if the key is handed over to him, the responsibility falls on the tenant to inspect.
השוכר בית מחבירו בי"ד ואינו יודע אם הוא בדוק אם הוא בעיר שואלו אם בדקו ואם אינו בעיר חזקתו בדוק ומבטלו בלבו ודיו:
If the tenant rents a house from his friend on the 14th of Nissan, and he does not know the landlord checked (for Chametz), if the landlord is in town, he asks if it has been inspected, and if he is not in town, his assumption is that it has been inspected, and he cancels it in his heart, and it is sufficient.
המשכיר בית לחבירו בחזקת בדוק ונמצא שאינו בדוק על השוכר לבדוק ואינו מקח טעות ואפי' במקום שבודקים בשכר שהרי מצוה הוא עושה: הגה וי"א דצריך להחזיר לו שכר הבדיקה הואיל והתנה בהדיא שיהיה בדוק: (המגיד פ"ב ומשמע לעיל סי' י"ד):
The landlord rents a house to his friend with the presumption of it being inspected, and if it is found to be uninspected, it is the responsibility of the tenant to inspect, and the transaction cannot be retracted. This applies even in a place where it is customary to hire someone else to check, as it is a mitzvah to fulfill. Rema: Some say that the landlord must return the inspection fee to the tenant since it was explicitly stipulated that it would be inspected (HaMagid, Perek 2, and see above Siman 14).
בית שהוחזק שלא בדקו המשכיר ואמרו אשה או עבד או קטן אנו בדקנוהו הרי אלו נאמנים והוא שיהא קטן שיש בו דעת לבדוק:
A house that was presumed to be inspected without the landlord checking, and they (a woman, a slave, or a minor) said, 'We inspected it,' they are believed. However, the minor must be of an age capable of inspection.
English translation: Sefaria Community Translation · CC0