Even when the Fudai and Nihanba ranked families did not hold an official position within the shogunate, they would receive a stipend and were granted inheritance rights to their estates.
譜代と二半場は、無役（幕府の公職に任ぜられていない状態）であっても、俸禄の支給を受け、惣領に家督を相続させて身分と俸禄を伝えることができた。