Adscriptitii
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
ADSCRIPTICIUS, or adscriptitius (Lat. from adscriptus). In the civil law. United, annexed, or bound to. Adscriptitii (q. v.) were a class of cultivators who were annexed to the land, without the power of leaving it, and whose earnings or peculium belonged to their owners or masters.
Code, 11. 47. 19.
There was very little difference between them and slaves.
See Code, 11. 47. 21.