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Definition of Overclaim
1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overclaim
Literary usage of Overclaim
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Encyclopedia: Being a General Dictionary of Arts, Sciences by Daniel Keyte Sandford, Thomas Thomson, Allan Cunningham (1837)
"He was thus cooped up in a dilemma ; if he did not claim the whole of his invention,
from a fear of overclaim- ¡ng, he of course lost his right to that ..."
2. Imperatoris Iustiniani Institutionum Libri Quattuor by John Baron Moyle (1883)
"... disappearance of formulae a plaintiff who made an overclaim was punished with
absolute loss of action on the ground of calumnia, but this was remedied ..."
3. Imperatoris Iustiniani Institutionum libri quattuor by Justinian, John Baron Moyle (1883)
"Even after the disappearance of formulae a plaintiff who made an overclaim was
punished with absolute loss of action on the ground of calumnia, ..."
4. The Magazine of Science, and Schools of Art (1842)
"A patentee, therefore, who should make an overclaim, and against whom an action
should be brought in consequence of that overclaim, will, •M far as that ..."
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