Responsa for Bava Batra 267:13

<big><strong>גמ׳</strong></big> זה בני נאמן למאי הלכתא אמר רב יהודה אמר שמואל ליורשו ולפטור את אשתו מן היבום

BUT HE<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The doubtful brother. ');">²³</span> RECEIVES [A SHARE] WITH HIM IN HIS PORTION.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In the case of two brothers, A and B, for example, one of whom (A) does not, and the other (B) does acknowledge a third person (C) as a brother, the estate is divided into three portions, and each one of the two brothers (A and B) receives one and a half of these portions (half the estate). The second (B), however, retains only one portion (a third of the estate) to which he is in any case entitled, giving to the doubtful brother (C) the half of the third portion. Should C ever be able to establish his brotherhood, he would also be entitled to receive from A the other half of the third portion. ');">²⁴</span> [IF] HE<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The doubtful brother. ');">²³</span> DIES, THE PROPERTY<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The half of the third portion which B (v. previous note) has given him. ');">²⁵</span> REVERTS TO ITS OWNER.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'their place'. I.e., to B from whom he received it. The other brother (A), who previously disowned, and denied C the second half of the third portion, is not entitled to claim any portion at all of that which was allowed him by B. Even if C were his real brother from whom he is entitled to inherit, A has no claim now, since he already received his share of C's estate by his retaining the half of the third portion. ');">²⁶</span> [IF, HOWEVER,] HE ACQUIRED PROPERTY FROM OTHER SOURCES,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'property fell to him from another place', either as an inheritance or as a gift or purchase. ');">²⁷</span> HIS BROTHERS SHARE THE INHERITANCE WITH HIM.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' With B, since he had acknowledged them as brothers of C. ');">²⁸</span> <b><i>GEMARA</i></b>. 'THIS IS MY SON', HE IS BELIEVED; in [respect of] what legal practice? — Rab Judah said in the name of Samuel: As regards the right of heirship,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'to inherit him'. ');">²⁹</span> and the exemption of his wife from levirate marriage.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Deut. XXV, 5. ');">³⁰</span>

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