Commentary for Bava Batra 244:10

אלא אמר רב אשי הכי קאמר אחד בן בין הבנים ואחד בת בין הבנות אם אמר יירש כל נכסי דבריו קיימין

shall inherit all my property', his instruction is legally valid.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because a person has a right to transmit all his property to any one individual of his legal heirs. He cannot, however, transmit his estate to a daughter when a son or his heirs are alive. Since the latter have the first legal claim as heirs to his estate, and one has no right to dispose of his bequests (unless in the manner of a gift) except accordance with the laws of succession. ');">²⁶</span> Whose view is here represented?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'like whom'. ');">²⁷</span> [Is it not that] of<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'like'. ');">²⁸</span>

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