Study Bava Batra folio 176B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
It is only a guarantor who undertakes a loan guarantee in the presence of a court who does not require an act of acquisition; this indicates that generally, a guarantor requires an act of acquisition in order to be obligated to pay.
The Talmud concludes: And the halakha is that a guarantor who accepts responsibility for the loan at the time of the giving of the money does not require an act of acquisition; but if he accepts responsibility after the giving of the money, he requires an act of acquisition. Moreover, a guarantor