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SUMMARY
1. The Mishnah discusses the case of partners in a yard who wish to make a partition in the middle of their yard.
2. One partner may force the other to erect a wall between the two halves of their garden if this is the custom in that area.
3. When a person erects a wall that he is not required to put up by law, he makes a "Chazis" on the wall.
4. A person may not gaze at his friend's field when the harvest is fully grown.
5. One who has a roof that overlooks his friend's yard must build a four-Amah wall on his roof.
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A BIT MORE
1. Each person gives up half of the width of the wall from his portion of the yard in order to build the wall. Accordingly, if a wall ever falls down, we know that each person owns half of the land taken up by the wall.
2. However, in a valley where the custom is generally not to put up a wall between the two halves, one partner may not force the other to put up a wall on shared property. If one of them wants to put up a wall, he may do so, but it must rest solely on his own property.
3. A Chazis is a one-Amah square strip of plaster at the top of the wall facing his friend's part of the property. This is a sign that he paid for the wall.
4. This is because he may damage it by giving it an "Ayin ha'Ra" -- "evil eye."
5. This is so that he should not invade his friend's privacy by being able to see into his yard. This is known as "Hezek Re'iyah" -- "damage through seeing."
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