Claim

[L. Lat. clametus, clamea, clamium, clamor; vendicatio.] A challenge [or demand] by any man of the property or ownership of a thing, [or of some interest in it,] which he has not in possession, but which is withholden from him unlawfully. Termes de la ley.

Cowell. Blount.

Litt. sect.

420.

Plowd. 359 a; Stowell v. Zouch. A demand of some matter as of right made by one person upon another, to do or to forbear to do some act or thing as a matter of duty.

Story, J., 16 Peters' R. 539, 615.