Black’s Dictionary 1st Edition, page 209:
CLAIM, v. To demand as one’s own; to assert a personal right to any property or any right: to demand the possession or enjoyment of something rightfully one’s own, and wrongfully withheld.
CLAIM, n. 1. A challenge of the property or ownership of a thing which is wrongfully withheld from the possession of the claimant. Plowd. 359.
A claim is a right. or title, actual or supposed, to a debt, privilege, or other thing in the possession of another : not the possession, but the means by or through which the claimant obtains the possession or enjoyment. 2 N. Y. 245, 254.
A claim is, in a just, juridical sense, a demand of some matter as of right made by one person upon another, to do or to forbear to do some act or thing as a matter of duty. A more limited, but. at the same time an equally expressive, definition was given by Lord Dyer, that ” a claim is a. challenge by a man of the propriety or ownership of a thing, which he has not in possession, but which is wrongfully detained from him. ” 16 Pet. 615.
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