Adscriptitii

Adscripiidus, Ascriptitius. L. Lat. [from ascriptus, q. v.] United, annexed, or bound to. Adscriptith glehce; annexed, bound, or adstricted to the soil; employed in cultivating it, and in performing other rural services for the owner.

Uaargr. Co. Liit. Note 1, to lib. 2.

A term applied to tenants by villein socage, and commonly supposed to denote a condition approaching nearer to that of slaves than of freemen. Id, ibid. But, according to Bracton, they were so called because, so long as they did the appointed services, they had the privilege not to be removed from the soil, (gaudentprivilegio quod a gleba amoveri non poterunt,) and were in fact freemen. Bract. fol.

7 a. 209 a.

Id. fol.

4 b.