Word Finder - claimant

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One who claims; one who makes a claim.

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A person receiving money from the government, in a form of unemployment benefits, disability benefits or similar.

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The party who initiates a lawsuit before a court.

Alexander was not the only claimant to the vacant throne, but, recognized by the army, he soon swept all rivals from his path.

William the Aetheling having perished in the wreck of the "White Ship" (25th of November 1120), Fulk, on his return from a pilgrimage to the Holy Land (1120-1121), married his second daughter Sibyl, at the instigation of Louis VI., to William Clito, son of Robert Courteheuse, and a claimant to the duchy of Normandy, giving her Maine for a dowry (11 22 or 1123).

A homestead law exempts from judgment liens and forced sale a homestead not exceeding $2000 in value and consisting either of a farm not exceeding 160 acres or of property not exceeding two lots in a city or village; the exemption, however, does not extend to mechanics', labourers' or vendors' liens upon said homestead or to a mortgage upon it that has been signed by both husband and wife or by an unmarried claimant.

Netherlands to the Austrian claimant, accomplished all that could reasonably be desired, though the abandonment to the vengeance of the Spanish government of her Catalan allies, and the base desertion of her continental confederates on the very field of action, brought dishonour on the good name of England.

The title of negus negusti has been to a considerable extent based on the blood in the veins of the claimant.

This firm prospered for a while, and issued in 1889 Mark Twain's own comic romance, A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court, and in 1892 a less successful novel, The American Claimant.

If the person acting on the claimant's behalf has power of attorney or receivership they need not apply to become an appointee.

Moreover, the two hands and a castle, which form the arms of Antwerp, will not be dismissed as providing no proof by any one acquainted with the scrupulous care that heralds displayed in the golden age of chivalry before assigning or recognizing the armorial bearings of any claimant.

The counter-stroke of Austria was to embarrass Prussia by allowing full play in Holstein to the agitation in favor of the Augustenburg claimant.

There ought first to be some likely or reasonably arguable connection between the car and the claimant.

The claimant commenced proceedings alleging breach of contract and negligence.

The accounting records showed that the claimant had 13 vehicles and spare capacity so that there was no loss of takings.

I dismiss the claimant 's application for declaratory relief declaring that the Adjudicator's decision was null and void.

This entitles the claimant to apply for a warrant to have the defendant evicted.

One of the D3 fitters negligently injured the claimant.

All too often, it is easier to settle the motor claim than agree treatment costs for the injured claimant.

If a psychic claimant really could predict winners by using psi this would be of great interest to psychical research.

On average, the European Union received 1 asylum claimant per 1,000 inhabitants during 2002 (3 ).

Normally this is the benefit claimant or the person to whom the benefit is paid.

The claimant count jobless rate, for example, remains at just 2.9% .

He submits that the claimant is entitled to judgment for the sum demanded leaving the defendant to pursue any counterclaim it may have.

The Claimant was then advised that the only alternative was for him to have a craniotomy.

The claimant began descending the pitch using the descender.

The tribunal decided that the fact that the claimant never received the benefit of Monday bank holidays did constitute a detriment.

The claimant had dual US and Irish nationality, and by virtue of his Irish nationality he was a citizen of the European Union.

A fixed deduction is made from the claimant's entitlement to Housing Benefit (see box below ).

The catheter was forcibly expelled just prior to her son's birth causing permanent damage to the Claimant's urethra.

Until the claimant became sensitized to latex protein, the substance hazardous to her health was contained in the powdered latex gloves.

The ' first ' IP claimant must then within 20 days register a complaint to actually instigate STOP.

Also, it would normally be the defendant insurer, rather than the claimant, who would purchase the annuity.

The latter's position in refusing to divulge the information to the claimant is readily intelligible on its face.

The objective is to award a lump sum that will enable the claimant to meet his assessed needs over the relevant period.

The claimant underwent neurosurgery in respect of the depressed skull fracture and fixing of dental wiring, which was in place for five weeks.

There is no reason to place a heavy onus on the claimant.

Based in modern offices in central Bristol close to transport links, they are currently seeking a paralegal to join their claimant PI team.

A claimant begins an action for an order for possession of residential property by way of a summons in a county court.

There is no doubt the commercial judges have become far more protective of the claimant, insured or reinsured.

The Claimant coped with his urinary incontinence with a penile sheath and bag strapped to his leg.

On 7th April the claimant's solicitors faxed to them copies of the documents they had filed with the court six weeks earlier.

The claimant succeeded at first instance, but not in the Court of Appeal.

Online Archives When a libel suit is won by a claimant it is not essential to take defamatory material offline.

However, the Claimant was advised that he would probably need to have his left testicle removed.

On the basis of this advice, the Claimant agreed to undergo further surgery to remove his right testicle.

The rate of claimant count unemployment remained at 5.2 percent.

On the 18th August 1987 the Claimant remained unwell.

He will succeed merely by showing that an employer's wrongdoing had materially increased the risk of the Claimant contracting the disease.

Some upheld a rival claimant to the throne in Tvrtkovic, a legitimate son of Tvrtko, and all took sides in the incessant feud between Bogomils and Roman Catholics.

When it is admitted - as seems to be reasonable - that the primitive Arachnida would, like the primitive Crustacea, be anomomeristic and anomotagmic, we shall not demand of claimants for the rank of primitive Arachnids agreement with Limulus and Scorpio in respect of the exact number of their somites and the exact grouping of those somites; and when we see how diverse are the modifications of the branches of the appendages both in Arachnida and in other classes of Arthropoda, we shall not over-estimate a difference in the form of this or that appendage exhibited by the claimant as compared with the higher Arachnids.

In 1584 the long-suffering earl of Shrewsbury was relieved of his fourteen years' charge through the involuntary good offices of his wife, whose daughter by her first husband had married a brother of Darnley; and their orphan child Arabella, born in England, of royal descent on the father's side, was now, in the hopeful view of her grandmother, a more plausible claimant than the king or queen of Scots to the inheritance of the English throne.

If damages were to be recovered by the claimant, to whom should or could they be applied?