Section
When every class of male heirs is simultaneously present, only three of them inherit: the son, the father, and the husband. When every class of female heirs is simultaneously present, five1 of them inherit: the daughter, the son’s daughter, the mother, the wife, and the full sister.
If those heirs who can coexist from both categories are present together, five2 of them inherit: the two parents, the two children, and whichever of the spouses survives.
Whenever the residuary heir is an uncle, a paternal cousin, or a nephew, he alone receives the estate to the exclusion of his sisters.
If no agnatic heirs by blood remain, the emancipator inherits—even if the emancipator is a woman—followed by his male agnates, the nearer of them before the more remote, as with blood relatives. Should none of these exist, we apply the rule of radd (return of the surplus to the fixed-share heirs); and if that, too, is impossible, the estate passes to the womb-kin.