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See "Ad Sectam." ADSCENDENTS (Lat.) In the civil law.

Ascendants. Dig. 23. 2. 68; Code, 5. 5. 6.

ADSCRIPTI (Lat. scribere). Joined to by writing; ascribed; set apart; assigned to; annexed to. ADSCRIPTITI (Lat.) A species of slaves. Those persons who were enrolled and liable to be drafted as legionary soldiers. Calv. Lex. ADSCRIPTITII (or ADSCRIPTITI) GLEbae (Lat.) In old English law. Annexed, -bound, or adstricted to the soil; employed in cultivating it, and in performing other rural services for the owner.

Harg. Co. Litt. note 1 to lib.

2. "Ascriptitious to the soil."

Bl. Law Tr. 96-98.

A term applied to tenants by villein socage, and commonly supposed to denote a condition approaching nearer to that of slaves than of freemen. Harg. Co. Litt. ubi supra. 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 (gaudent privilegio quod a gleba amoveri non poterunt), and were in fact freemen. Bracton, fols.

7a, 209a; Id. fol. 4b.

See Fleta, lib.

1, c. 8, § 3.

The term is also used in old Scotch law. Skene de Verb. Sign. voc. "Bondagium."