A person who has created a new Ie can abolish the Ie without any inhibition and revive a head family, branch family, family which has the same origin as its branch family, or other family of relatives (the Old Civil Codes, Article 762)
新たに家を立てた者に関しては自由に廃家して、本家、分家、同家その他親族の家を再興することができる（旧民法762条）