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Claim

Claim (claim)
v.(?).(kl1913 webster dictionarym)
Claim
[imp. *** p. p. Claimed (kl&amacr]md); p. pr. *** vb. n. Claiming.] [OE. clamen, claimen, OF. clamer, fr. L. clamare to cry out, call] akin to calare to procl
  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.
    [Obs.] Spenser.
  3. To call or name.
    [Obs.] Spenser.
  4. To assert; to maintain.
    [Colloq.]

Claim

Claim (claim)
v. i.
Claim
  1. To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.

    We must know how the first ruler, from whom any one claims, came by his authority.
    Locke.


Claim

Claim (claim)
n.
Claim
  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.
    "A bar to all claims upon land." Hallam.
  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.
    [U.S. *** Australia]
  4. A loud call.
    [Obs.] Spenser

    To lay claim to, to demand as a right. "Doth he lay claim to thine inheritance?" Shak.














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