• CLAIM

1. poscere (in expectation that the claim will be granted): deposcere: exposcere (urgently): postulare: expostulare (when one has a right: expostulare, urgently): flagitare: efflagitare (impetuously): Cic., Milon. 34, p. in., makes a climax thus, misericordiam implorare, requirere, exposcere, flagitare. (The words are found in this connection and order), poscere et flagitare: petere: expetere (more by means of entreaty than claim): exigere (to claim; e.g., wages, debts, etc): persequi pecuniam, etc. (if before a court): per litteras flagitare (by letter): to be entitled to claim, jure quodam suo postulare posse; justam postulandi causam habere; sibi vindicare, sumere or assumere aliquid (to lay claim to it). To claim the throne, regnum affectare, quaerere (Liv.); imperium affectare (Ter.): the name of a learned man, nomen docti sibi vindicare, sumere.

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• s. postulatio; postulatum (demand): jus (right: general term): petitio (claim preferred in a court; also, the right to make such a claim): vindiciae (judicial or formal claim to a thing or person). A suit to establish such a claim, lis vindiciarum. An unjust claim, injustae vindiciae. To prefer a claim to anything, rem sibi or ad se vindicare (by law or otherwise) [Vid: TO CLAIM]: an intolerable claim, postulatum intolerabile: an impudent claim, postulatio impudens: very moderate claims, postulata lenissima: to make an unjust claim, iniquum postulare: I grant a claim, quod aliquis postulat concedo: to desist from a claim, postulationem alicujus rei adjicere: to give up or surrender a claim, jus suum dimittere or remittere; de jure suo decedere: to give up a claim to anything, remittere rem; decedere de re. The person on whom a claim is made (judicially), unde petitur.
• The claims of anything, quod dandum or tribuendum est alicui rei (the latter if the claim is one of right). The claims of friendship, quod dandum est amicitiae: of duty, quod tribuendum est officio.