Difference Between Joint Hindu Family and Mitakshara Coparcenary

Joint Hindu Family

1. Bigger institution and includes coparcenary Mitakshara Coparcenary
in it i.e. there can be a joint family without a
coparcenary in it.
1. No coparcenary without Joint Family.
2. No presumption in aw that a joint Hindu
2. Coparcenary envisages rights and
Family has any property at all.
obligations of the members of the joint
3. Joint family is broader then coparcenary i.e.
family over property.
no limitation on the number of members in
3. Coparcenary is limited to four
joint family or the number of generations.
generations of male members only.
4. Joint family has both males and females as
4. Coparcenary under classical law
its members.
comprises only of male members and no
5. All members in joint family do not have
female member could be its member.
equal rights over the joint family property i.e.
5. In coparcenary, all members have an
some of them have right to maintenance out
interest in coparcenary property by birth
of joint funds or right of residence over the
and have a right to demand partition of
family house.
their interest in the property.
6. A Joint Family may consist of only two
6. In coparcenary, minimum of two male
members or one male + one or more female
are required and a single male member
members.
is called as ‘Sole Surviving
7. Only plurality of members is required i.e.
Coparcener’.
both male and females and it continues even
7. Coparcenary cannot be continued on the
after the death last male in the family - So
death of male members of the family.
long there is a capability of females to add
male members in the family.