Commentary for Ketubot 181:9

בשלמא אי אשמעינן אחת בחייו ואחת במותו יש להן כתובת בנין דיכרין ולא אשמעינן כתובה נעשית מותר לחברתה הוה אמינא אי איכא מותר דינר אין אי לא לא

If he had taught us that [where] one [wife died] during her husband’s lifetime and the other after his death [the sons of the former] are entitled to the “benin dikhrin” ketubah, but had not taught us that one ketubah is regarded as the surplus over the other, I might have said that if there is a surplus of a dinar, they do receive [the ketubah] and if not, they do not.

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