Hanmoto Mitodoke was a term used to describe the act of confirmation by a government officer that was sent from the Edo bakufu, when a samurai family applied for matsugo-yoshi (adopting a son on the family head's deathbed).
判元見届（はんもとみとどけ）とは、江戸時代に武家から末期養子の申請が出された際に江戸幕府から役人が派遣されて行われる確認作業のこと。