Claim , n. [Of. claim cry, complaint, from clamer. See Claim, v. t.]
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.
Claim , 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.
Claim (klām), v.&?;. [imp. & p. p. Claimed
(klāmd); p. pr. & vb. n. Claiming.]
[OE. clamen,
claimen, OF. clamer, fr. L. clamare to cry out, call;
akin to calare to proclaim, Gr. &?; to call, Skr. kal to sound, G.
holen to fetch, E. hale haul.] 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.]
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