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claimant

noun accusant, accuser, appellant, asserter, claimer, complainant, libelant, litigant, one who asserts a demand, one who claims a right, party to a suit, person who makes a claim, person with a grievance, plaintiff, pleader, postulant, solicitant, solicitor, suitor
Associated concepts: lien claimant, subsequent claimant, suit by claimant
Foreign phrases: Semper necessitas probandi incumbit ei qui agit.The burden of proof always lies upon the claimant.

CLAIMANT. In the courts of admiralty, when the suit is in rem, the cause is entitled in the Dame of the libellant against the thing libelled, as A B v. Ten cases of calico and it preserves that title through the whole progress of the suit.When a person is authorized and admitted to defend the libel, he is called the claimant. The United States v. 1960 bags of coffee; 8 Cranch, R. 398; United States v. The Mars; 8 Cranch, R. 417; 30 hhds. of sugar, (Brentzon, claimant, v. Boyle. 9 Cranch, R. 191.

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Although you can appeal against this decision, the appeal can take three months and if the appeal is successful all benefits be restored, but the claimant still has to live on greatly reduced benefits.

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THE Government's new Claimant Commitment will help to end the culture of entitlement, Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith said last night.

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The Indian Residential School Adjudication Secretariat is telling Independent Assessment claimants who filed with Blott & Company not to panic in light of the BC Supreme Court's decision to disallow the Calgary law firm from continuing to represent IAP clients.