In our country, assets forfeiture and substitute assets forfeiture to the gains derived from offense by co-principals, each defendant is jointly and severally liable to the forfeiture,,. However, the academic community generally takes the viewpoint of negation theory to the practical operation of forfeiture based on obligation principles. After integrating the natures of forfeiture and substitute assets forfeiture, the viewpoints of comparative jurisprudence and the obligation principles, the author believes the issue is under the constraint of not allowing the offenders' being permitted to preserve illegal benefits and the obligation principles to measurement of penalty. Therefore, though courts have to comply with the substitute assets forfeiture regulations of law and have no authority to consider whether to apply it or not, they still have the authority to burden the amount of substitute assets forfeiture to the individual offender according to real benefits gained. If it could not be clearly identified, courts should make a reasonable judgment to the substitute assets forfeiture of the co-principals for complying with obligation principles in measuring penalty.