Fourth Introduction

When the heirs are numerous, they may all be inheriting specified shares or none has such share or a mix of both groups. The first case wherein all have fixed shares such shares may be:

(a) Equal. (b) More. (c) Less than the legacy.

Like the case where heirs are parents each with 1/6 and two daughters with 2/3 equaling a whole one unit 2/6 plus 2/3 is equal to 1 or like the case wherein the heirs are a husband, the parents and two daughters where the specified shares are 1/4, 2/6 and 2/3 totaling 1 & 1/4. A 1/4 more than a whole unit; a case referred to as the case of facing deficit; wherein according to non-IMAMIAS the amount of deficit is divided upon the specified shares, involve proportionate to each share's ratio, but according to IMAMIAS the deficit is compensated from certain specified shares not all such shares: (a) When the heirs consist of the first category of heirs, the deficit is taken from the share of daughter or daughters and in the case of the second category heirs like. (b) When they are a husband, a sister from both parents and two sisters from the mother's side only, in which case the husband's share is 1/2, that of sister's from both parents is 1/2 and that of sister's from the mother's side only is 1/3 and the total is more than one whole unit and in this case the deficit is compensated from the share of those nearest relatives to father who in the above case is the sister from both parents but not the husband or the sisters from the mother's only.