Are the two apartments that the deceased helped his sons purchase, and which were not registered in their names before his death, considered part of the inheritance that must be divided? And does the son have a share in the agricultural land that has not yet been divided, knowing that the father did not leave a written will, and that the mother sold part of it and claimed that the father had allocated a portion to his daughter?
The apartment, the agricultural land, and the shares left by the deceased father are considered an inheritance and are to be divided among the legal heirs. A bequest to an heir is not valid unless the rest of the heirs consent to it. A bequest is not established by the testimony of a single woman, especially if the mother is testifying for her daughter, or the cousin's daughter is testifying for the deceased's daughter. If the deceased left only a wife, two sons, and a daughter, then the wife gets one-eighth, and the remainder is for the children, with the male receiving the share of two females. The inheritance is divided into forty shares: the wife gets five shares, each son gets fourteen shares, and the daughter gets seven shares.
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