Jastrow: פִּיסְטִין

פִּיסְטִין, פִּיסְטִיס, פִּסְ׳ f. (πίστις) trust. Yalk. Ps. 672 נוטלין … ופורעין בפ׳ they borrow from one another in trust (without witnesses or note) and pay in trust; Midr. Till. to Ps. XIX בפינוסין, ed. Bub. בפטסין (corr. acc.).—Esp. שטר פ׳ a deed of trust, an instrument by which property is conveyed to a person in trust (fideicommissum) to use it in a certain way; a feigned sale or donation (for the purpose of eluding creditors &c.). Y. Keth. II, 26ᵇ bot. נאמנין … ושטר פ׳ הוא (not פוסיטים, פיסיטים) witnesses (signed on an instrument) are credited when they say, it was a deed of trust (v. אֲמָנָה), or it was a feigned transfer. Ib. (ref. to Job XI, 14) ‘if there be wrong in thy house, remove it’, this means a deed &c.; Bab. Keth. 19ᵇ פסים, (read with Ar. פָּסִיס q. v.). Ib. 79ᵃ הרוצה … כותבת שטר פסים לאחרים if a woman desires to withhold her property from her husband’s control, she may write out a deed of trust (a feigned transfer) to a third person (prior to her marriage); Tosef. ib. IX, 2 כותבן שטר פטים לאחר ed. Zuck. (Var. בטפיח, כותבתן בטפוס, corr. acc.). B. Bath. 154ᵇ אם אמר שטר פסים הוא זה (Ms. H. פיס) if he says, it was a feigned sale (you persuaded me to a nominal sale in order to make people believe that you are a man of means).