Related for Ketubot 135:16
ומי אמר רבא הכי והתניא רבי אומר בת הניזונת מן האחין נוטלת עישור נכסים ואמר רבא הלכתא כרבי לא קשיא הא דאמידניה הא דלא אמידניה
But could Rava have said this? Surely it was taught: Rabbi said: A daughter who is maintained by her brothers is to receive a tenth of [her father’s] estate; and Rava said that the law is in agreement with Rabbi! This is no difficulty. The former [is a case] where we estimated how much he could give, and the latter is a case where we did not estimate how much he could give.
Tosefta Ketubot
A man who dies and leaves sons and daughters, when the property is large, the sons inherit and the daughters are fed and supported. How do the sons inherit? They [the court] don't say: "If their father were still alive, he would have given them X"—rather, they see each one as if he were their still living father [at the same social status], and pay them. How are the daughters fed and supported? They don't say: "If their father were still alive, he would have given them X"—rather, they see them as they are [now in social status] and so how much they need support, and pay them. Rabbi says: Each of [the daughters] takes a tenth of the property. Rabbi Yehudah says: If he married off his first daughter [with a certain dowry], he has to give to the second like what he gave to the first. They said to him: There are those who marry off their daughter and receive money, and those who marry off their daughter and pay after her money. And so Rabbi Yehudah used to say: One who marries off his daughter without explicit [stipulation of a dowry], he should not give her less than 5 selaim, for in the old days that was enough to buy for her everything she needs.
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