Chapter on the Grandfather’s Inheritance

The grandfather inherits nothing when the father is present. If there is no father, the grandfather assumes the father’s place, provided the deceased has left neither a full or paternal brother nor a maternal grandmother.

There are two special combinations of heirs: (1) a husband and the two parents, or (2) a wife and the two parents. In either situation, if the father is replaced by a grandfather, the mother receives her full one-third, and whatever remains after the husband’s or wife’s fixed share goes to the grandfather.

The father’s mothers—that is, the paternal grandmothers—do not inherit alongside the father, but they do inherit with the grandfather.

Every paternal ancestor, however remote, is treated as a grandfather—so long as no nearer grandfather exists—with respect both to the share he receives and to the heirs he excludes. The sole exception concerns the mothers of that grandfather: each grandfather bars his own mothers, however distant, yet he does not bar the mothers of an ancestor who is closer to the deceased than he is. If, together with