cellio | daf bit: Bava Metzia 37

In the current chapter the talmud discusses depositing property with another for safekeeping and the various things that can go wrong. We then come to a mishna that teaches: if a man says to two different people that the father of one of them deposited a maneh (an amount of money) with him but he doesn't know which, then he must give each of them a maneh. If two made deposits with him, one a maneh and one 200 zuzim (a larger amount), and each claims the 200 zuzim, he pays each a maneh and we hold the rest until Eliyahu comes. And if two deposited utensils of different values and both claim the better one, he gives the lesser one to one person, sells the other, pays the other the value of the lesser one out of the proceeds, and again we wait for Eliyahu. (37a)

It is said that when Eliyahu comes to usher in the moshiach, he will resolve all matters of halacha that could not be decided before. Whether, as a practical matter, these partial-but-unknown debts are to be held and passed down from heir to heir to heir, I do not know. Is anybody today holding coins (or a bank balance) in this kind of escrow from the past, waiting for Eliyahu to settle the matter?

(Today's daf is 38.)