Extracted From:
  A LAW DICTIONARY ..., SIXTH EDITION, 1856
  by John Bouvier, CHILDS & PETERSON, PHILADELPHIA

CLAIM. A claim is a challenge of the ownership of a thing which a man has not in
possession, and is wrongfully withheld by another....

  2. In Pennsylvania, 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 called a claim. 

  3. A continual c1aim is a claim made in a particular way, to preserve the
rights of a feoffee. See Continual claim. 

  4. 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....


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....

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