Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    In the civil law. Added, annexed or bound by or in writing; enrolled, registered; united, joined, annexed, bound to, generally. Servus colonœ adscripts, a slave annexed to an estate as a cultivator. Dig. 19, 2, 54, 2. Fundus adscripts, an estate bound to or burdened with a duty. Cod. 11, 2, 3.