Major topics taught in this course include:  Witnesses to a protest, writing by witnesses, writing a document you’ve declared void, chazakas without a claim, chazakas on an inheritance, chazakas by several consecutive people, people who have no chazaka, partners and chazaka, a partner as a witness, robbed person as a witness about his stolen property, heirs of a thief repaying stolen property, sharecropper’s chazaka, sharecropper as a witness, categories of those who can be witnesses, categories of those who have chazakas, forced sales, chazaka on a wife’s possessions, and chazaka for property of a married woman. Topics and sources may vary. The course allows for a cross-section of different kinds of texts, giving the student a broad range of topics to which to apply numerous research techniques. Methods of instruction include lecture, discussion and textual preparations. In contradistinction to study-in-depth courses, the focus of the Talmudic survey courses is broad, comprehensive study, which enables Talmudic students to access the concepts necessary to be conversant in a variety of areas of Talmudic discipline. Prerequisite: Introductory courses in Talmud, fundamental familiarity with the main topics of the tractate.