As Their Interest May Appear

The expression "as their interest may appear," used in a fire insurance policy relating to the interest of a mortgagee, has relation to and contemplates an insurable interest in the mortgagee which exists at the time the contract was made, and has no application to any new interest not then in existence, such as a simple contract indebtedness Incurred by the mortgagor to the mortgagee and not secured by the mortgage. 94 111. App. 499. ASCENDANTS (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 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.