Responsa for Ketubot 163:9

מתקיף לה רב ששת השתא יבם ואח"כ חילק לא עשה ולא כלום חילק ואח"כ יבם מבעיא שני מעשים הוו

Sheshet raised a difficulty: Now [when] he performed levirate marriage and then divided the property, the division is null and void, was it at all necessary [to ask the question where] the division took place first and the levirate marriage afterwards? These were two independent incidents.

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