Do the heirs of a grandmother demand only the value of the original inheritance, or also a percentage of the profit generated by the trade in which this inheritance was invested since 1964, after the death of the grandmother's brother who seized the inheritance?
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Your grandmother's right to inheritance is established and cannot be forfeited by prescription. You have the right to claim the inheritance and a share of the profit. Scholars have analogized this to the case of someone who trades with a deposit entrusted to him, or someone who seizes another's money and trades with it, and the correct view is that the profit is divided between the two parties.
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