Allegation vs. Claim — What's the Difference?

In law, an allegation is a claim of a unproven fact by a party in a pleading, charge, or defense. Until they can be proved, allegations remain merely assertions.There are also marital allegations: marriage bonds and allegations exist for couples who applied to marry by licence.

State or assert that something is the case, typically without providing evidence or proof

A claim or assertion that someone has done something illegal or wrong, typically one made without proof

Formally request or demand; say that one owns or has earned (something)

An assertion that someone has done something wrong, often without proof

Cause the loss of (someone's life)

(Law) An assertion that someone has engaged in an unlawful act.

An assertion that something is true

An assertion, especially an accusation, not necessarily based on facts.

A demand or request for something considered one's due

The act of alleging.

To demand, ask for, or take as one's own or one's due

The act of alleging or positively asserting.

To take in a violent manner as if by right

That which is alleged, asserted, or declared; positive assertion; formal averment

To state to be true, especially when open to question; assert or maintain

A statement by a party of what he undertakes to prove, - usually applied to each separate averment; the charge or matter undertaken to be proved.

To deserve or call for; require

(law) a formal accusation against somebody (often in a court of law);

A demand for something as rightful or due.

Statements affirming or denying certain matters of fact that you are prepared to prove

A basis for demanding something; a title or right.

Something claimed in a formal or legal manner, especially a tract of public land staked out by a miner or homesteader.

A demand for payment in accordance with an insurance policy or other formal arrangement.

The sum of money demanded.

A statement of something as a fact; an assertion of truth

A demand of ownership made for something.

The thing claimed.

The right or ground of demanding.

A new statement of something one believes to be the truth, usually when the statement has yet to be verified or without valid evidence provided.

A demand of ownership for previously unowned land.

(legal) A legal demand for compensation or damages.

To demand ownership of.

To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true.

To demand ownership or right to use for land.

(legal) To demand compensation or damages through the courts.

(intransitive) To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.

To cause the loss of, usually by violent means.

(obsolete) To proclaim.

(archaic) To call or name.

To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.

To proclaim.

To call or name.

To assert; to maintain.

To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.

A demand of a right or supposed right; a calling on another for something due or supposed to be due; an assertion of a right or fact.

A right to claim or demand something; a title to any debt, privilege, or other thing in possession of another; also, a title to anything which another should give or concede to, or confer on, the claimant.

The thing claimed or demanded; that (as land) to which any one intends to establish a right; ; as, a settler's claim; a miner's claim.

A loud call.

An assertion of a right (as to money or property);

An assertion that something is true or factual;

Demand for something as rightful or due;

An informal right to something;

An established or recognized right;

A demand especially in the phrase

Assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing;

Demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to;

Ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example;

Lay claim to; as of an idea;

Take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs;