legal claim

collocation in English

meaningsoflegalandclaim

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legal
adjective
uk
/ˈliː.ɡəl/us
/ˈliː.ɡəl/
connected with ...
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claim
noun[C]
uk
/kleɪm/us
/kleɪm/
a statement that something is true or is a fact, although other people might not ...
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(Definition oflegalandclaimfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflegal claim

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A legal liberty, which is defined as the absence of legal duty, correlates with an absence oflegalclaim-right on the part of someone else.
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Alegalclaim-right correlates with a legal duty, so that to have a claim-right is to be owed a legal duty by someone.
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Civil cases concernedlegalclaimover a woman, and responsibility for her desertion was legally of little import.
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Such is the case when a victim suffers injury from a nonnegligent doer and therefore, in a negligence regime, can state nolegalclaimfor compensation.
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By disobeying the law, they seek rights over the child to which they have nolegalclaim.
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That, apparently, is a perfectlylegalclaimto be made.
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Those pensions are pensions given as a right to which these persons have alegalclaim.
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We are taking action open to us to maintain ourlegalclaim.
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We know that there is nolegalclaim.
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He must realise that many people have alegalclaimto representation.
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Such holders, in the meantime, have a completelegalclaimagainst the local authority.
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What it was deciding was whether there was anylegalclaimfor compensation, and it was that to which it referred in its conclusions.
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Of course, they have not got alegalclaim.
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Voluntary hospitals are very unwilling to exercise thatlegalclaim, and in fact decline to do so.
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The only woman who has alegalclaimupon him is his lawful wife.
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If they accept, anylegalclaimthat they may have will fall and become the property of the board.
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If the widow feels that she has alegalclaim, it must be against the clerk, who is not our servant.
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No; the rating authority spreads the rate over five years, but the person who gets the award has alegalclaimagainst the authorities.
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I think that, while members on all sides realise that these men have nolegalclaim, yet they were penalised for their patriotism.
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I think there is alegalclaimfor the men who enlisted before 1879.
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