Orders for Tokuseirei during the Kamakura period were mainly for protecting poor and suffering vassals, and the most commonly known order is Tokuseirei in the Einin era in 1297.
鎌倉時代の徳政令には、貧窮に苦しむ御家人保護の名目が強く、1297年(永仁5)の永仁の徳政令が知られる。