The document that initiates a legal proceeding in Small Claims Court (in most states) and in alternative dispute resolution proceedings.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
claim (verb)transitive verb
1.
a) to ask for especially as a right - claimed the inheritance
b) to call for - require this matter claims our attention
c) - take the accident claimed her life
2.
to take as the rightful owner
3.
a) to assert in the face of possible contradiction - maintain claimed that he'd been cheated
b) to claim to have - organization … which claims 11,000 … members Rolling Stone
c) to assert to be rightfully one's own - claimed responsibility for the attack demand
1.
a demand for something due or believed to be due - an insurance claim
2.
a) a right to something , specifically a title to a debt, privilege, or other thing in the possession of another
b) an assertion open to challenge - a claim of authenticity
3.
something that is - claimed , especially a tract of land staked out
Claim (Wikipedia)
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Claim may refer to:
- Claim (legal)
- Claim of Right Act 1689
- Claims-based identity
- Claim (philosophy)
- Land claim
- A main contention, see conclusion of law
- Patent claim
- The assertion of a proposition; see Douglas N. Walton
- A right
- Sequent, in mathematics
- Another term for an advertising slogan
- A term in contract bridge
- king of claim (Indonesia)
