Originarii et Adscripticii: Analysis of the Different Legal, Administrative and Fiscal Condition

In the mid-4th century the originarii coloni were perpetually and hereditarily tied to the cultivated land, thus promoting the practice of having the taxable amount of capitation be established in proportion to the land units and moving the fiscal responsibility to its owner. Starting the in the 5th century, in the West part of the Roman Empire, the act of being tied to the land became subject to the discharged rules of prescription. In the East part of the Roman Empire, the concept of adscripticia condicio begins at the end of Justinian period, establishing its hereditary and indefeasible character, its financial inability, a rigid marital regulation and strict requirements to declare the validity of a contract which links a free person as adscripticius