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Adscriptus

Defined in 4 dictionaries — Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Burrill (1850)

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In the civil law. Added, annexed or bound by or in writing; enrolled, registered; united, joined, annexed, bound to, generally. Servus colonœ adscripts, a slave annexed to an estate as a cultivator. Dig. 19, 2, 54, 2. Fundus adscripts, an estate bound to or burdened with a duty. Cod. 11, 2, 3.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

ascriptus, I. In the civil bound in or by writing; registered, enrollment; united, joined, scriptus glebai: annexed to the adscripti glebce and passed to the to which they belonged.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

Inthe civillaw. Added, annexed, or bound by or in writing; enrolled, registered; united, joined, annexed, bound to, generally. Servus colone adscriptus, a Slave annexed to an estate as a cultivator. Dig. 19, 2, 54,2. Pundus adscriptus, an estate bound to, or burdened with a duty. Cod. 11, 2, 3.

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

Ascriptus. Lat. [from ascribere, to write to, enrol, annex.! Enrolled or registered; united by enrolment; united, joined, or annexed generally. Adscriptus glehce; annexed to the soil. Slaves in the middle ages were adscripti glehoe, and were conveyed by sale together with the farm or estate to which they belonged. 1 Robertson's Charles V., Appendix, note ix.