However, a head of a family who had created his own household can abolish the household without any inhibition but a head of a family who had become successor needed permission from a law court to abolish the household.
ただし、一家創立によって戸主になった者は自由に廃家できたが、家督相続により戸主になった者が廃家する場合は裁判所の許可を必要とした。