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:

    There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any claim to blackness other than the biological. They have forgotten their roots.
    Stephen Carter (b. 1954)

    The very existence of society depends on the fact that every member of it tacitly admits he is not the exclusive possessor of himself, and that he admits the claim of the polity of which he forms a part, to act, to some extent, as his master.
    Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

    Modern equalitarian societies ... whether democratic or authoritarian in their political forms, always base themselves on the claim that they are making life happier.... Happiness thus becomes the chief political issue—in a sense, the only political issue—and for that reason it can never be treated as an issue at all.
    Robert Warshow (1917–1955)