Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Claim \Claim\, n. [Of. claim cry, complaint, from clamer. See
   {Claim}, v. t.]
   1. A demand of a right or supposed right; a calling on
      another for something due or supposed to be due; an
      assertion of a right or fact.

   2. A right to claim or demand something; a title to any debt,
      privilege, or other thing in possession of another; also,
      a title to anything which another should give or concede
      to, or confer on, the claimant. ``A bar to all claims upon
      land.'' --Hallam.

   3. The thing claimed or demanded; that (as land) to which any
      one intends to establish a right; as a settler's claim; a
      miner's claim. [U.S. & Australia]

   4. A loud call. [Obs.] --Spenser

   {To lay claim to}, to demand as a right. ``Doth he lay claim
      to thine inheritance?'' --Shak.