CLAIM - A demand for money or other
relief.
A written demand or written assertion by one of the
contracting parties seeking, as a matter of right,
the payment of money in a sum certain, the adjustment
or interpretation of contract terms, or other relief
arising under or relating to the contract. A claim
arising under a contract, unlike a claim relating
to that contract, is a claim that can be resolved
under a contract clause that provides for the relief
sought by the claimant.
A claim is a challenge of the ownership of a thing
which a man has not in possession and is wrongfully
withheld by another.
The entry on of the demand of a mechanic or materialman
for work done or material furnished in the erection
of a building, in those counties to which the lien
laws extend, is sometimes called a claim.
A continual c1aim is a claim made in a particular
way to preserve the' rights of a feoffee.
Claim of conusance is defined to be an intervention
by a third person, demanding jurisdiction of a cause
against a plaintiff, who has chosen to commence his
action out of the claimant's court.
