Commentary for Bava Batra 288:12

מכלל דאידך משלם לימא תנו לי שושביני ואשמח עמו

it is a case of a levir<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The husband's brother, who, in accordance with Deut. XXV, 5, married the widow of his brother who died childless and who, had he been alive, would have been entitled as shoshbin to the reciprocated gift. ');">⁴²</span> who is not [entitled] to receive the prospective possessions<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The reciprocated gift is the prospective property of the dead brother, which the brother who married his widow cannot inherit, though he inherits all property that was in his brother's possession prior to his death. ');">⁴³</span> of his dead brother' as those which he already possessed.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hence the gift reverts to the common estate. ');">⁴⁴</span> Does this then imply that the other<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The original recipient of the gifts from the dead brother. ');">⁴⁵</span>

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