Each one's stipend was called kokudaka (a system for determining land value for tribute purposes in the Edo period), and it often happened that kokudaka did not correspond to actual administrative unit, and accordingly, aikyu was a commonly practiced to divide one village among several jitos.
また、知行は石高単位に応じて与えられたために実際の行政単位と合致しないことも少なくなく、1村を複数の地頭で分割する相給が行われることも珍しくなかった。