Commentary for Bava Batra 223:13

אלא אי אמרת לא אמרינן שכבר הוסבה כי מינסבא לאחד ממשפחת מטה אביה מאי הוה הא מתעקרא נחלה משבטא דאימא לשבטא דאבא

Is it not possible that that case<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The transfer of a mother's inheritance to another tribe. ');">³²</span> is different<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' From that of the transfer to another tribe of a father's inheritance. ');">³³</span> because [the estate] had already been transferred?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A mother's estate, as soon as the daughter inherits it, is removed from the mother's tribe to that of the daughter who belongs to her father's tribe. Consequently it does not matter whether the daughter subsequently marries one from her mother's tribe or not. What proof, then, is there from Num. XXXVI, 8, that a husband is heir to his wife? ');">³⁴</span>

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