Under classical (uncodified) Mitakshara Hindu law, a coparcener's interest in joint family property…

Under classical uncodified Mitakshara law, a deceased coparcener's undivided interest in joint family coparcenary property devolved upon the surviving coparceners by survivorship ("jus accrescendi") rather than by succession. Under modern statutory law, Section 6(3) of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 (as substituted by the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005) abolished devolution by survivorship and provides that a deceased Hindu's interest in Mitakshara coparcenary property devolves by testamentary or intestate succession.