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:

    My one claim to originality among Irishmen is that I have never made a speech.
    George Moore (1852–1933)

    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)

    It matters little comparatively whether the fields fill the farmer’s barn. The true husbandman will cease from anxiety, as the squirrels manifest no concern whether the woods will bear chestnuts this year or not, and finish his labor with every day, relinquishing all claim to the produce of his fields, and sacrificing in his mind not only his first but his last fruits also.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)