Commentary for Bava Batra 223:14

דמנסבינן לה לגברא דאבוהי משבטא דאבוה ואימיה משבטא דאימה

— He said to him: [The argument]. 'because it had already been transferred' is rather weak.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'we do not say'. Though a partial transfer takes place when a daughter inherits an estate from her mother, it does not follow that this must have the way for a complete transfer to another tribe. The daughter belongs, at least partly, to the tribe of her mother but her son is an entire stranger to that tribe. Consequently there remains the question. What safeguard was provided against the transfer from the mother's tribe? ');">³⁵</span> R. Yemar said to R. Ashi: If [the argument], 'because it had already been transferred' is to be used,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' With the result that we are not concerned with the transfer from the mother's tribe. ');">³⁶</span> one can very well understand the verse<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Num, XXXVI, 8, And every daughter that possesseth etc. ');">³⁷</span> [as having reference] either to transfer through the son or to transfer through the husband;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., owing to one or other of these possibilities of transfer from the father's inheritance to another tribe, a daughter inheriting an estate must marry one of her father's tribe. ');">³⁸</span> if, however, it is said that [the argument] 'because it had already been transferred', is not to he used, [of] what benefit is [it] when she is married to a man of the family of her father's tribe? Surely the inheritance is removed from the tribe of her mother to that of her father! — She may he given in marriage to a person whose father is of the tribe of her father, and his mother of the tribe of her mother.

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