Yasutoki wrote, 'This Shikimoku was produced as the criteria by which to abolish the unfairness that persons with power win and persons without power lose for nearly the same charges in many lawsuits, and to hold fair trials without any favoritism regardless of the positions of such persons.'
「多くの裁判事件で同じような訴えでも強い者が勝ち、弱い者が負ける不公平を無くし、身分の高下にかかわらず、えこひいき無く公正な裁判をする基準として作ったのがこの式目である。