Payment for Commitment
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Question
One young man committed to another young man that if he does not go to a certain yeshiva, he will give him a sum of money, and they made a document and kinyan for this. Indeed, the young man is not going to that yeshiva. Is the first one obligated to pay the money?
Answer
He is obligated.
Source
Ketubot 81:
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