Antiquity, a kind of slaves, among the Romans, adjudged to serve some creditor whom they could not otherwise satisfy, and whose flames they became till they could pay or work out the debt.

Addiction, among the Romans, was the making over goods to another, either by sale, or by legal sentence; the goods so delivered were called bona addicta. Debtors were sometimes delivered over in the same manner; and thence called servi addicti.