This chapter discusses the halakhot that govern usufruct property that a woman brings into a marriage. There is a principle that any property that is not part of a woman's dowry that she owns prior to marriage, or property that she inherits during the marriage, remains hers. However, it is permitted for the husband to use it and eat from its produce.

This dual ownership of usufruct property, whereby the wife owns the principal and the husband owns the rights to the produce, raises a host of problems concerning the rights to sell the property or transfer its produce to someone else. There are also numerous details and distinctions concerning this issue, such as the difference between the husband's rights to the property during betrothal and during marriage, and his rights if he is a yavam performing levirate marriage.

Another issue that arises is how to care for the usufruct property so that it does not deteriorate, as well as ensure that it yields produce from which the husband benefits. To resolve this issue, it is necessary to define precisely what is considered the principal and what is considered produce, which is not at all obvious in certain cases where the principal does not renew itself and is slowly consumed.

Yet another relevant issue is the status of the usufruct property if the wife gets divorced, especially in cases where certain processes taking place are not yet complete, e.g., a usufruct field whose fruits have not yet been picked, or a husband who spent money on caring for his wife's usufruct field but was not yet reimbursed for his expenses.

These questions and the issues related to them will be the primary topics of discussion in this chapter.