Say: Allah directs (thus) about those who leave no descendants or ascendants as heirs.
It seems that if they were reluctant she might by process of law compel her ascendants at least to furnish it.
Marriage is prohibited between ascendants and descendants, and collaterally between all persons related by consanguinity and affinity as set forth in the list of impediments in the statement of the law of Massachusetts.
Marriages between ascendants and descendants, between brothers and sisters of whole or half blood, between uncles and nieces, aunts and nephews, and first cousins of the whole blood, are prohibited.
Marriages are therefore prohibited between all ascendants and descendants, legitimate or illegitimate.
If the opposition proves to be without legal ground the one filing it, unless one of the ascendantsor the public prosecutor, may be held responsible for any damage occasioned by him.
Children are bound to support their parents and other ascendantswho are in want.
Marriages betweenascendants and descendants, or being persons of nearer kin than second cousin, are prohibited.
Marriage is forbidden between ascendants and descendants, between full or half brothers and sisters, between first cousins and between uncles and nieces or aunts and nephews.
The ascendants and descendants by legitimate or natural consanguinity or affinity.
Marriages are prohibited between ascendants and descendants; between brothers and sisters of the whole or half blood; between uncles and nieces; aunts and nephews, and all other persons related by blood or marriage within the third degree.
Marriage between ascendantsand descendants, and between persons nearer of kin than the fourth degree of consanguinity, is prohibited.
Marriage between ascendants and descendants, between brothers and sisters, of whole or half blood, between uncles and aunts, and nieces and nephews are void.
If a person died leaving neither ascendants nor descendants, his brothers and sisters succeeded to his estate in equal shares.
When ascendants stood alone, the father and mother succeeded in equal portions, and if only one survived, he or she succeeded to the whole, so that grandparents were excluded.
The children of a deceased brother were not admitted to the succession along with ascendants and surviving brothers and sisters.
A descendant of either sex, or any degree, was preferred to all ascendants and collaterals.
Likewise when one of the direct ascendants of either of the young couple died the other family furnished a pig for the funeral and a death blanket as one of the burial robes.
For the same period as that embraced in the preceding paragraph it is the duty of either spouse to furnish the other in the event of the death of any of the lineal ascendants of the other, a pig and a death blanket.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ascendants" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ancestors; antecedent; elder; forebears; patriarch; predecessor; progenitor
