Ownership vs. Claim — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Ownership and Claim
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Ownership
Ownership is the state or fact of exclusive rights and control over property, which may be any asset, including an object, land or real estate, intellectual property, or until the nineteenth century, human beings. Ownership involves multiple rights, collectively referred to as title, which may be separated and held by different parties.
Claim
State or assert that something is the case, typically without providing evidence or proof
‘I'm entitled to be conceited,’ he claimed
Not every employee is eligible to claim unfair dismissal
The Prime Minister claimed that he was concerned about Third World debt
Ownership
The act, state, or right of possessing something
The ownership of land
The rise in car ownership
Claim
Formally request or demand; say that one owns or has earned (something)
If no one claims the items, they will become Crown property
Ownership
The state or fact of being an owner.
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Claim
Cause the loss of (someone's life)
The attacks claimed the lives of five people
Ownership
A group that owns something
The ownership of the team wants to make a trade for a better pitcher.
Claim
An assertion that something is true
He was dogged by the claim that he had CIA links
Ownership
The state of having complete legal control of something; possession; proprietorship.
Claim
A demand or request for something considered one's due
The court had denied their claims to asylum
Ownership
(business) Responsibility for something.
The successful candidate will take ownership of all internal design projects.
Claim
To demand, ask for, or take as one's own or one's due
Claim a reward.
Claim one's luggage at the airport carousel.
Ownership
The state of being an owner; the right to own; exclusive right of possession; legal or just claim or title; proprietorship.
Claim
To take in a violent manner as if by right
A hurricane that claimed two lives.
Ownership
The relation of an owner to the thing possessed; possession with the right to transfer possession to others
Claim
To state to be true, especially when open to question; assert or maintain
Claimed he had won the race.
A candidate claiming many supporters.
Ownership
The act of having and controlling property
Claim
To deserve or call for; require
Problems that claim her attention.
Ownership
The state or fact of being an owner
Claim
A demand for something as rightful or due.
Claim
A basis for demanding something; a title or right.
Claim
Something claimed in a formal or legal manner, especially a tract of public land staked out by a miner or homesteader.
Claim
A demand for payment in accordance with an insurance policy or other formal arrangement.
Claim
The sum of money demanded.
Claim
A statement of something as a fact; an assertion of truth
Makes no claim to be a cure.
Claim
A demand of ownership made for something.
A claim of ownership
A claim of victory
Claim
The thing claimed.
Claim
The right or ground of demanding.
You don't have any claim on my time, since I'm no longer your employee.
Claim
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.
The company's share price dropped amid claims of accounting fraud.
Claim
A demand of ownership for previously unowned land.
Miners had to stake their claims during the gold rush.
Claim
(legal) A legal demand for compensation or damages.
Claim
To demand ownership of.
Claim
To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true.
Claim
To demand ownership or right to use for land.
Claim
(legal) To demand compensation or damages through the courts.
Claim
(intransitive) To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
Claim
To cause the loss of, usually by violent means.
The attacks claimed the lives of five people.
A fire claimed two homes.
Claim
(obsolete) To proclaim.
Claim
(archaic) To call or name.
Claim
To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.
Claim
To proclaim.
Claim
To call or name.
Claim
To assert; to maintain.
Claim
To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
We must know how the first ruler, from whom any one claims, came by his authority.
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.
Claim
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.
Claim
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.
Claim
A loud call.
Claim
An assertion of a right (as to money or property);
His claim asked for damages
Claim
An assertion that something is true or factual;
His claim that he was innocent
Evidence contradicted the government's claims
Claim
Demand for something as rightful or due;
They struck in support of their claim for a shorter work day
Claim
An informal right to something;
His claim on her attentions
His title to fame
Claim
An established or recognized right;
A strong legal claim to the property
He had no documents confirming his title to his father's estate
He staked his claim
Claim
A demand especially in the phrase
The call of duty
Claim
Assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing;
He claimed that he killed the burglar
Claim
Demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to;
He claimed his suitcases at the airline counter
Mr. Smith claims special tax exemptions because he is a foreign resident
Claim
Ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example;
They claimed on the maximum allowable amount
Claim
Lay claim to; as of an idea;
She took credit for the whole idea
Claim
Take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs;
The accident claimed three lives
The hard work took its toll on her
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