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Definition of Ascendents
1. ascendent [n] - See also: ascendent
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ascendents
Literary usage of Ascendents
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Institute of the Law of Scotland: In Four Books : in the Order of Sir by John Erskine, James Ivory (1828)
"2d!y, The right of representation in heritage, by which remoter heirs represent
their ascendents, explained supr. T. 8. § 11, has no place in the succession ..."
2. The Ecclesiastical Law by Richard Burn (1842)
"Of the Succession of Ascendents. " WHEN the deceased leaves no descendents ...
And if divers ascendents are living, we prefer those who are " in the nearest ..."
3. A Summary of the Roman Civil Law: Illustrated by Commentaries on and ...by Patrick Mac Chombaich De Colquhoun by Patrick Mac Chombaich De Colquhoun (1854)
"... and other ascendents in the male h'ne.8 Exceptions from this rule were made
in cases of signal ingratitude,9 and where. the children themselves were ..."
4. Diseases of the Nervous System by Julius Lincoln Salinger (1910)
"In how far alcoholism or syphilis, in the ascendents, play a role cannot be
determined with certainty; by some authors, alcoholism among the parents, ..."
5. Gaii Institutionum Iuris Civilis Commentarii Quatuor, Or, Elements of Roman by Gaius, Edward Poste (1875)
"Cognates through female ascendents are merely natural kinsmen. Thus, between a
man and his sister's son there is not agnation, but cognation : so my ..."
6. Gai Institvtiones, Or, Institutes of Roman Law by Gaius, Edward Poste, Edward Arthur Whittuck, Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge (1904)
"Agnates (3 § 10) are persons related through males, that is, through their male
ascendents : as a brother by the same father, such brother's son or son's ..."
7. Gaii Institutionum Iuris Civilis Commentarii Quattuor: Or, Elements of Roman by Gaius, Edward Poste (1884)
"Agnates (3 § 10) are cognates through males, that is, through their male ascendents :
aa a brother by the same father, such brother's son or son's son; ..."
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