Commentary for Bava Batra 226:4

דלמא דין נחלות קא אמרת דתניא (במדבר כז, יא) והיתה לבני ישראל לחוקת משפט אורעה כל הפרשה כולה להיות דין

Abaye said unto him: 'If that is the case,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'but from now', Abaye assumed Rabbah to interpret the Baraitha in the sense that a distribution of shares of an inheritance takes place only when death occurred in the daytime. ');">¹²</span> would children be heirs only to him who died in the daytime, but not to him who died at night?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Surely, this is impossible. ');">¹³</span> [You mean], perhaps, [the administration of] the law[s] of inheritance;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That lawsuits relating to matters of inheritance must be dealt with by the court in the daytime only; as is the case with other civil lawsuits. Cf. Jer. XXI, 12, Execute justice in the morning. ');">¹⁴</span> as it was taught: [With the Biblical announcement] And it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute of judgment,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Num. XXVII, 11. ');">¹⁵</span>

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