Demand
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
n. Aclaim: the assertion ofa legal right; a legal obligation asserted in the courts. “Demand” isa word of art of an extent greater in its signification than any other word except “claim.”
Co. Litt.291; 2 Hill, 220.
Demand embraces all sorts of actions, rights, and titles, conditions beforeor after breach, executions, appeals, rents of all kinds, covenants, annuities, contracts, recognizances, statutes, commons, ete. A release of all demands to date burs an action for damages accruing after the date from a nuisance previously erected.
1 Denio, 257.
Demand is more comprehensive in import than “debt” or “duty.”
4 Johns. 536; 2 Hill, 220.
Demand, or claim, is properly used in reference to a cause of action.
32 How. Pr. 280.
An imperative request preferred by one person to another, under a claim of right, re quiring the latter to do or yield something or to abstain from some act.