Manu Smriti - Hindu Online

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9.211. If the eldest or the youngest (brother) is deprived of his share, or if either of them dies, his share is not
lost (to his immediate heirs).
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9.212. His uterine brothers, having assembled together, shall equally divide it, and those brothers who were
reunited (with him) and the uterine sisters.
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9.213. An eldest brother who through avarice may defraud the younger ones, shall no (longer hold the position
of) the eldest, shall not receive an (eldest son’s additional) share, and shall be punished by the king.
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9.214. All brothers who habitually commit forbidden acts, are unworthy of (a share of) the property, and the
eldest shall not make (anything his) separate property without giving (an equivalent) to his younger brothers.
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9.215. If undivided brethren, (living with their father,) together make an exertion (for gain), the father shall on
no account give to them unequal shares (on a division of the estate).
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9.216. But a son, born after partition, shall alone take the property of his father, or if any (of the other sons) be
reunited with the (father), he shall share with them.
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9.217. A mother shall obtain the inheritance of a son (who dies) without leaving issue, and, if the mother be
dead, the paternal grandmother shall take the estate.
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9.218. And if, after all the debts and assets have been duly distributed according to the rule, any (property) be
afterwards discovered, one must divide it equally.
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9.219. A dress, a vehicle, ornaments, cooked food, water, and female (slaves), property destined for pious uses
or sacrifices, and a pasture-ground, they declare to be indivisible.
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9.220. The division (of the property) and the rules for allotting (shares) to the (several) sons, those begotten on a
wife and the rest, in (due) order, have been thus declared to you; hear (now) the laws concerning gambling.