As soson (a community consisting of peasants' self-governing association) developed, villages made their own regulations on how to carry out religious services and how to maintain the local temple, according to rules called "so okite."
また、惣村の発達に伴い、村が地元の寺社の維持・祭祀の遂行のために惣掟に規定を設ける事例もあった。