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claim

  [kleym]
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–verb (used with object)
1. to demand by or as by virtue of a right; demand as a right or as due: to claim an estate by inheritance.
2. to assert and demand the recognition of (a right, title, possession, etc.); assert one's right to: to claim payment for services.
3. to assert or maintain as a fact: She claimed that he was telling the truth.
4. to require as due or fitting: to claim respect.
–verb (used without object)
5. to make or file a claim: to claim for additional compensation.
–noun
6. a demand for something as due; an assertion of a right or an alleged right: He made unreasonable claims on the doctor's time.
7. an assertion of something as a fact: He made no claims to originality.
8. a right to claim or demand; a just title to something: His claim to the heavyweight title is disputed.
9. something that is claimed, esp. a piece of public land for which formal request is made for mining or other purposes.
10. a request or demand for payment in accordance with an insurance policy, a workers' compensation law, etc.: We filed a claim for compensation from the company.
—Idiom
11. lay claim to, to declare oneself entitled to: I have never laid claim to being an expert in tax laws.
Origin:
1250–1300; (v.) ME claimen < AF, OF claimer < L clāmāre to cry out; (n.) ME < AF, OF cla(i)me, n. deriv. of the v.

Related forms:
claim⋅a⋅ble, adjective
claimless, adjective

Synonyms:
1. See demand. 6. request, requisition, call.
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Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
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Word Origin & History

claim 
c.1300, from O.Fr. clamer "to call, claim," from L. clamare "to cry out, shout," from PIE *kla-, *kele- "to shout," onomatopoeic (cf. Gk. kikleskein "to call," O.E. hlowan "make a noise like a cow"). The noun meaning "piece of land allotted and taken" (chiefly U.S. and Australia, in reference to mining) is from 1851. Claim properly should not stray too far from its true meaning of "to demand recognition of a right." Insurance sense is from 1878.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Legal Dictionary

Main Entry: claim
Function: noun
Etymology: Old French, from clamer to call, claim, from Latin clamare to shout, proclaim
1 a : a demand for something (as money) due or believed to be due; specifically : a demand for a benefit (as under the workers' compensation law) or contractual payment (as under an insurance policy) b : a paper embodying such a demand claim with the court>
2 : a title to something (as a debt or privilege) in the possession of another claim to the proceeds>
3 a : a right to seek a judicial remedy arising from a wrong or injury suffered claim for a broken arm, another for a ruptured spleen, and so forth —J. H. Friedenthal et al.>; also : the formal assertion of such a right claim in the district court> b : CAUSE OF ACTION 1 claim against a seller of applesauce when she alleged that her children…ate the applesauce…and were then so discomforted that they had to have their stomachs pumped —J. J. White and Railroad S. Summers> —see also RES JUDICATA
NOTE: A cause of action may encompass more than one claim as the term is used in sense 3a. Claim is often used to mean cause of action, however, esp. in modern federal practice. c : a right to payment or to an equitable remedy as set forth in the Bankruptcy Code —see also PROOF OF CLAIM
4 : a formal assertion made by an applicant for a patent of the novelty and patentability of an invention with a description of the invention and its purpose —claim transitive verb
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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