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; ; | ||||
4. | A loud call.
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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.