Mesorat%20hashas for Ketubot 4:9

נִשְׁבֵּית, חַיָּב לִפְדּוֹתָהּ. וְאִם אָמַר, הֲרֵי גִטָּהּ וּכְתֻבָּתָהּ, תִּפְדֶה אֶת עַצְמָהּ, אֵינוֹ רַשָּׁאי. לָקְתָה, חַיָּב לְרַפֹּאתָהּ. אָמַר, הֲרֵי גִטָּהּ וּכְתֻבָּתָהּ, תְּרַפֵּא אֶת עַצְמָהּ, רַשָּׁאי:

If he did not write: "The male children that you will have from me will inherit the money of your kethubah over and above their share with their brothers," he is (nevertheless) liable (for this), for this is a condition of beth-din. [If you died in my lifetime, and I inherit you, your sons will take your kethubah after my death when they come to divide my property with the sons that I will have from a different wife. This will make a difference if her kethubah is more than the other's, or if the other's sons are more numerous than her own, in which instance it will profit these to take their mother's kethubah, even if (the amounts of) both be equal. The "male-children" kethubah, even in our days, is claimed only from land, but not from chattel. And it is only when the father left over the amount of the two kethuboth and an additional dinar that the sons can inherit the "male-children" kethubah, since room was left for Torah-inheritance. For after each of the sons takes of his mother's kethubah, there remains a dinar of their father's property to share among them. But if the father left only the amount of the two kethuboth, or less than this, they share the property equally among them, the "male-children" kethubah not obtaining.]

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