Claimant

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Claimant \Claim"ant\, n. [Cf. OF. clamant, p. pr. of clamer. Cf.
     {Clamant}.]
     One who claims; one who asserts a right or title; a claimer.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  claimant
       n : someone who claims a benefit or right or title; "claimants
           of unemployment compensation"; "he was a claimant to the
           throne"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  27 Moby Thesaurus words for "claimant":
     accusant, accuser, allegator, appellant, applicant, aspirant,
     bidder, candidate, complainant, delator, impeacher, impugner,
     indictor, informer, libelant, party, petitioner, plaintiff,
     postulant, prosecutor, seeker, solicitant, solicitor, suitor,
     suppliant, supplicant, the prosecution
  
  

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

  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. The United States v. 1960 bags of coffee; 8 Cranch, 
  R. 398; United States v. The Mars; 8 Cranch, R. 417; 30 hhds. of sugar, 
  (Brentzon, claimant, v. Boyle. 9 Cranch, R. 191.