adscriptive (adskriptiv)

[L. adscript i vus, enrolled, adscript, Many estates peopled with crown peasants have been ceded to particular individuals on condition of establishing manufactories; these peasants, called adscriptive, working at the manufactories on fixed terms. Brougham , adscript us glebæ (ad-skrip'tus glē'bē); pl. ad script i glebæ (-ti). [L.: adscript us, adscript; glebe, gen. of gleba, glebe.] Belonging or attached to the soil, as a serf. In Roman law this term was applied to a cla of slaves attached in perpetuity to and transferred with the land they cultivated. The same custom prevailed among all Germanic and Slavic peoples, and has been but gradually abolished during the past three hundred years, down to the emancipation of the Ru ian serfs in 1861.