Grounds vs Claim - What's the difference?
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(legal) Basis or justification for something, as in "grounds for divorce."
The collective land areas that compose a larger area, as in the castle grounds.
(plural only) The sediment at the bottom of a liquid, or from which a liquid has been filtered (as in coffee grounds).
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.
In lang=en terms the difference between grounds and claim
is that grounds is basis or justification for something, as in "grounds for divorce. while claim is to demand compensation or damages through the courts.As a verb claim is
to demand ownership of.grounds
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Etymology 1
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(grounds)Derived terms
* groundskeeper * stomping groundsEtymology 2
From (ground), past participle of (term)Noun
(head)Anagrams
*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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