Karyo,' 'Katai-sen' and other similar punishments by the seizing assets were enforced under the Honjo (proprietor or guarantor of manor) law which dealt with shoen (manor in medieval Japan), the Bunkokuho (the law individual sengoku-daimyo enforced within their own domain) which dealt with daimyo (Japanese territorial lord) in the Sengoku period and the customary laws for commoners.
「過料」や「過怠銭」またはそれに類する内容の財産刑は荘園における本所法や戦国大名における分国法、あるいは民間における法慣習としても行われていた。