Quotation for Bava Batra 264:9
ההוא דאמר להו תלתא לברת ותלתא לברת ותלתא לאיתת שכיבא חדא מבנתיה סבר רב פפי למימר לא שקלא אלא תלתא
[was allotted]? — [R. Nahman] replied to him: '[Do] you speak of movable objects?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' R. Nahman first understood the question to refer to fruit that was still growing on the trees. ');"><sup>30</sup></span> I certainly do not suggest [that the law quoted is to be applied to] moveables'. [Once] a certain [dying] man said to [his executors], 'a third [of my estate shall be given] to [one] daughter [of mine], a third to [the other] daughter, and a third to [my] wife'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In consequence of this gift his wife forfeited her right to seize the other two thirds in payment of her kethubah. ');"><sup>31</sup></span> [Then] one of his daughters died.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And her third reverted to her father who (in the absence of sons of her own) is heir to his daughter. ');"><sup>32</sup></span> R. Papi intended to give his decision [that the wife] receives only a third;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Viz., that third which her husband had allotted to her. She cannot claim her kethubah, according to R. Papi, from the third that reverted to her husband from his dead daughter, because once she renounced her claim upon it (when one of the thirds was allotted to her) she cannot any more regain it. ');"><sup>33</sup></span>