Adscriptus
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
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.