Claim

Pronunciation: klām

v. t.

To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.

[imp. & p. p. Claimed (klāmd); p. pr. & vb. n. Claiming.]

To proclaim.

To call or name.

To assert; to maintain.

v. i.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A loud call.

To lay claim to
to demand as a right. - Shak.

Noun	1.	claim - an assertion of a right (as to money or property); "his claim asked for damages"
	2.	claim - an assertion that something is true or factual; "his claim that he was innocent"; "evidence contradicted the government's claims"
	3.	claim - demand for something as rightful or due; "they struck in support of their claim for a shorter work day"
	4.	claim - an informal right to something; "his claim on her attentions"; "his title to fame" Synonyms: title
	5.	claim - an established or recognized right; "a strong legal claim to the property"; "he had no documents confirming his title to his father's estate"; "he staked his claim" Synonyms: title
	6.	claim - a demand especially in the phrase "the call of duty" Synonyms: call
Verb	1.	claim - assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing; "He claimed that he killed the burglar" Antonyms: disclaim - make a disclaimer about; "He disclaimed any responsibility"
	2.	claim - demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to; "He claimed his suitcases at the airline counter"; "Mr. Smith claims special tax exemptions because he is a foreign resident" Synonyms: arrogate, lay claim Antonyms: forfeit, give up, throw overboard, waive, forgo - lose or lose the right to by some error, offense, or crime
	3.	claim - ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example; "They claimed on the maximum allowable amount"
	4.	claim - lay claim to; as of an idea; "She took credit for the whole idea" Synonyms: take Antonyms: disclaim - renounce a legal claim or title to
	5.	claim - take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs; "the accident claimed three lives"; "The hard work took its toll on her" Synonyms: exact, take

CLAIM. A claim is a challenge of the ownership of a thing which a man has not in possession, and is wrongfully withheld by another. Plowd. 359; Wee i Dall.444; 12 S. & R. 179.
     2. In Pennsylvania, the entry on of the demand of a mechanic or materialman for work done or material furnished in the erection of a building, in those counties to which the lien laws extend, is called a claim.
     3. A continual c1aim is a claim made in a particular way, to preserve the' rights of a feoffee. See Continual claim.
     4. Claim of conusance is defined to be an intervention by a third person, demanding jurisdiction of a cause against a plaintiff, who has chosen to commence his action out of the claimant's court. 2 Wils. 409; 1 Cit. Pb. 403; Vin. Ab. Conusance; Com. Dig. Courts, P; Bac. Ab. Courts, D 3; 3 Bl. Com. 298.

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