Claim
Definition of Claim
Pronunciation: klām | v. t. | 1. | To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due. | | 2. | To proclaim. | | 3. | To call or name. | | 4. | To assert; to maintain. | | v. i. | 1. | To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim. | | n. | 1. | A demand of a right or supposed right; a calling on another for something due or supposed to be due; an assertion of a right or fact. | | 2. | A right to claim or demand something; a title to any debt, privilege, or other thing in possession of another; also, a title to anything which another should give or concede to, or confer on, the claimant. | | 3. | The thing claimed or demanded; that (as land) to which any one intends to establish a right; ; as, a settler's claim; a miner's claim. | | 4. | A loud call. |
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