CLAI

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  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. Plowd. 359; Wee i 
  Dall.444; 12 S. & R. 179. 
       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. 2 Wils. 409; 1 
  Cit. Pb. 403; Vin. Ab. Conusance; Com. Dig. Courts, P; Bac. Ab. Courts, D 3; 
  3 Bl. Com. 298.