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Although the tribes were divisions of the land, and individuals were registered in that tribe in which their land-allotment lay,[278] there is no good reason for accepting the current belief that the landless citizen was not enrolled in a tribe.[279] It has generally been assumed that the only object of the Servian tribes was to furnish a system of registration for taxation and the military levy. If this was the case, and we believe that these burdens were imposed only on landed property, it follows as a consequence that only holders of land were tribules. But there is no evidence that their scope was so limited. They appear to be divisions of the populus Romanus, and the disinherited or ruined Patrician who has lost his land is still a member of that populus. The tribe to which a landless man belonged would depend upon his domicile; it is a man’s local position in a tribe, not the land he holds in it, which is given as a criterion of his membership and of the political rights which it subsequently conferred.[280]