Claim

Verb. transitive. 1. To call for; to ask or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due; as, to claim a debt, to claim obedience, to respect. 2. To assert, or maintain as a right; as, he claims to be the best poet of the age. 3.To have a right or title to; as the heir claims the estate by descent.