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The Gemara focuses on how it has been determined that the daughter of a son will not inherit with her brothers. This was done after the war where few sons (b'nei Binyamin) survived; daughters would transfer their inheritances to other tribes if they married out of their tribe.
The Gemara relates that after the incident of Pilegesh b'Giv'ah when Shevet Binyamin was almost wiped out, a decree was established for Shevet Binyamin in order that its ancestral property remain in the ownership of the Shevet. The decree was that whenever there would be sons who are supposed to inherit from their father, along with a daughter of a deceased son, the daughter would not inherit.
This decree was made despite the Torah's law that a deceased son inherits from his father, and his daughter (if he had no son) subsequently inherits that portion of her grandfather's estate.
We explore the literary and historical drama behind the tragedy of pilegesh begivah in Judges 21.