glebae

The others are serfs and go with the soil — glebae adscripti.

The Art of Literature 2004

I was born and bred a west-country man, thank God! a Wessex man, a citizen of the noblest Saxon kingdom of Wessex, a regular "Angular Saxon," the very soul of me adscriptus glebae.

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

Society is always, in a sense, _adscripta glebae_; an expanding state which incorporates a new piece of territory inevitably incorporates its inhabitants, unless it exterminates or expels them.

Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897

Moreover, he was adscriptus glebae; that is to say, he could not change his habitation without his lord's written permission.

The Constitutional Beginnings of North Carolina (1663-1729) 1894

* There are plain indications in the documents of the time that the great dignitaries were at first hostile to the adscriptio glebae.

Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880

By faith in them has the Divine life been generated from the beginning; by faith in them has that life in all ages regenerated mankind, raised them above the limits of earthly life, changed them from glebae adscriptis to citizens of heaven, and formed the stage of transition from an existence chained to nature, to a free, celestial life, far raised above it.

The Life of Jesus Christ in Its Historical Connexion and Historical Developement. 1789-1850 1870

The slaves are a material part of the estate, and as they are regarded by the law as real property — being actually adstricti glebae — an inheritor of land has no alternative but to keep them.

North America 1862

When an alteration of the law settlement has released from parish bondage and vegetation those adscripti glebae agricultural labourers, the advantage of our network of railways will be still more felt.

Rides on Railways Samuel Sidney 1848

We, in England, had the same distinction between 'Laet,' or 'villains' settled on the land, glebae adscripti, and mere thralls or theows, slaves pure and simple.

Roman and the Teuton Charles Kingsley 1847

The whole world seemed to be morally, as well as materially, "adscripti glebae."

Endymion Benjamin Disraeli 1842