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To demand or assert as a right. Facts that combine to give rise to a legally enforceable right or judicial action. Demand for relief. A claim is something that one party owes another. Someone may make a legal claim for money, or property, or for Social Security benefits. A claim also means an interest in, as in a possessory claim, or right to possession, or a claim of title to land. claim 1) v. to make a demand for money, for property, or for enforcement of a right provided by law. 2) n. the making of a demand (assert a claim) for money due, for property, for damages or for enforcement of a right. If such a demand is not honored, it may result in a lawsuit. In order to enforce a right against a government agency (ranging for damages from a negligent bus driver to a shortage in payroll) a claim must be filed first. If rejected or ignored by the government, it is lawsuit time. 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.
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The diocese filed a Statement of Claim in the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador on June 7, 2006, seeking indemnity from six insurance companies for damages owing to victims of sexual abuse and defence costs and indemnity from any further damage awards (Atlantic Catholic, June 24, 2006). Platinex issued a statement of claim May 1 against the Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (K. Thomas Santiago McEvoy--who pleaded guilty to first-degree murder--is also named in the statement of claim. |
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