Legal Definition and Related Resources of Ascendants

Persons related or connected in the ascending line, by consanguinity or affinity .

(Lat. aseendere, to ascend, to go up to, to climb up to). Those from whom a person is descended, or from whom he derives his birth, however remote they may be. Every one has two ascendants at the first degree, his father and mother; four at the second degree, his paternal grandfather and grandmother, and his maternal grandfather and grandmother; eight at the third. Thus, in going up we ascend by various lines, which fork at every generation. By this progress, sixteen ascendants are found at the fourth degree; thirty-two at the fifth; sixty-four, at the sixth; one hundred and twenty-eight, at the seventh; and so on. By this progressive increase, a person has at the twenty-fifth generation thirty-three million five hundred and fiftyfour thousand four hundred and thirty-two. ascendants. But, as many of the ascendants of a person have descended from the same ancestor, the lines which were forked reunite to the first common ancestor, from whom the other descends; and this multiplication, thus frequently interrupted by the common ancestors, may be reduced to a few persons.

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