Creance vs Claim - What's the difference?
creance | claim |
(obsolete) faith; belief; creed
(falconry) A long leash, or lightweight cord used to prevent escape of a hawk during training flights.
*1603 , (John Florio), translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays , III.12:
*:Even as horses led by hand doe sometimes bound and start out of the way, but no further then their halters length, and neverthelesse follow ever his steps that leadeth them; And as a Hawke takes his flight but under the limits of hir cranes or twyne.
(obsolete) To get on credit; to borrow.
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.
As nouns the difference between creance and claim
is that creance is (obsolete) faith; belief; creed while claim is claim.As a verb creance
is (obsolete|transitive) to get on credit; to borrow.creance
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Noun
(en noun)- (Chaucer)
Verb
(creanc)- (Chaucer)
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.
- (Spenser)
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