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Definition of Laying claim
1. Noun. The act of taking possession of or power over something. "He acquired all the company's assets for ten million dollars and the assumption of the company's debts"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Laying Claim
Literary usage of Laying claim
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1894)
"... thought there was such a thing as an impious laying claim to immortality.
It may be that there is ; but if we are in sympathy with Jesus, ..."
2. The Medical Times and Gazette (1875)
"... I shall not be considered a very unreasonable and preju- • diced person.
•carried on for a« long a time. Far from laying claim to the ..."
3. Synonyms Discriminated: A Complete Catalogue of Synonymous Words in the by Charles John Smith (1871)
"... public speech, laying claim to a lofty und refined character, being necessarily,
what speeches are occasionally, the result of premeditation and study, ..."
4. The School World (1901)
"... inclusion of models of curvilinear form in any set laying claim to the title "
Sloyd." Other principles of choice there are, but their lesser importance ..."
5. History of the Reign of Charles the Fifth by William Robertson, William Hidkling Prescott (1857)
"But on Dr. Cornelius's laying claim to one of the emperor's mules, an order came
from Valladolid that every article, however trifling, with the exception of ..."
6. Land Tenure by Registration by William Pilling (1896)
"though separated by walls, fences, by-roads, or streams, may be included in one
claim, but any person laying claim to right of ownership in enclosed lands ..."
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