recognize the doctrine of the representation, to entitle the person to inherit, in the place of his father or mother. But under Shia law it is applied to decide the quantum of the share of any given person, under Sunni law it is not applied at all.
Under Sunni law a daughter's daughter as an uterine relation has no place in the inheritance until all the heirs and residuaries are exhausted but under Shia law she would inherit the share of her mother.^^ When the children of a son coexist with the children of a daughter, the son's children shall take 2/3 and daughter's children 1/3 the respective share of their parents in Shia law. Under Sunni law the children of a daughter are uterine relations and postponed until the sharers and the residuaries are
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If there is no child then Shia widow will be entitled to 1/2 of the personal estate only, including house hold^trees and buildings but not inherit in real estate, Jn case there are children then 1/8 of both personal and real property.̂ "̂ In Shia law if a non Muslim dies leaving behind a Muslim and a non Muslim heir, the Muslim heir though remote in degree, succeed in preference to the non Muslim heir but under Sunni law, non Muslim will not