Claim vs Pleading - What's the difference?
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A demand of ownership made for something (e.g. claim ownership, claim victory).
A new statement of truth made about something, usually when the statement has yet to be verified.
A demand of ownership for previously unowned land (e.g. in the gold rush, oil rush)
(legal) A legal demand for compensation or damages.
To demand ownership of.
To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true.
To demand ownership or right to use for land.
(legal) To demand compensation or damages through the courts.
To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
* John Locke
To proclaim.
To call or name.
The act of making a plea.
* (Thomas Hardy)
(legal) A document filed in a lawsuit, particularly a document initiating litigation or responding to the initiation of litigation.
That pleads.
* 1955 , , Ann Lindsay, Earth , p. 251:
* 1999 , (Simone de Beauvoir), The Mandarins , p. 599:
* 1993 , (Charles Haddon Spurgeon), Psalms , p. 225:
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As nouns the difference between claim and pleading
is that claim is claim while pleading is the act of making a plea.As a verb pleading is
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that pleads.claim
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Alternative forms
* claym (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
* Demand ownership of land not previously owned. One usually stakes a claim. * The legal sense. One usually makes a claim. SeeVerb
(en verb)- We must know how the first ruler, from whom anyone claims , came by his authority.
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* English reporting verbs ----pleading
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Noun
(en noun)- But it pleased her to play on my passion / And whet me to pleadings / That won from her mirthful negations / And scornings undue.
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- Franchise, relaxed and soothed by the vagueness of a surrender set so far in the future, simply took hold of his two hands to make him behave himself and looked at him with her pretty pleading eyes — the eyes of a sensitive woman who didn't want to risk having a child by anyone but her husband.
- With a pleading look, she raised her eyes to him.
- Have but a pleading heart and God will have a plenteous hand.
Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}