Claim

Claim may refer to:

  • Claim (legal)
  • Claim (patent)
  • Land claim
  • Proposition, a statement which is either true or false
  • A right
  • Sequent, in mathematics
  • A main contention, see conclusion of law

Famous quotes containing the word claim:

    You may consider me presumptuous, gentlemen, but I claim to be a citizen of the United States, with all the qualifications of a voter. I can read the Constitution, I am possessed of two hundred and fifty dollars, and the last time I looked in the old family Bible I found I was over twenty-one years of age.
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1816–1902)

    I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)