In modern times, as legislative power ultimately came to belong to a nation, laws based on chikyo-ken became invalid and as a result, the regulations grounding in tokyo-ken exclusively started to account for Jiin-ho.
近代に入ると、法の制定権限は最終的には国家に帰属することとなり、治教権による法に法的な効力が認められなくなり、寺院法ももっぱら統教権に基づく法令が占めるようになる。