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e may enter into trade. If man's convenience, health, Or safety interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount. Cowper.

nal from much grief. Shak. And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim. Addison.

One who cries out or proclaims; a herald or crier.

To remove from legal jurisdiction or enforcement; as, to outlaw a debt or claim; to deprive of legal force. "Laws outlawed by necessity." Fuller.

e state of being an owner; the right to own; exclusive right of possession; legal or just claim or title; proprietorship.

All-wise; claiming universal knowledge; as, pansophical pretenders. [R.] John Worthington.

Kindred; family; birth. [Obs.] Ld. Berners. We claim to be of high parage. Chaucer.

usually a solicitor, professionally employed by private parties to explain and recommend claims, bills, etc., under consideration of Parliament. [Eng.] -- Parliamentary train, one of the trains which, by act of Parliament, railway companies are required to run for the conveyance of third-class passengers at a reduced…

void; to shift or put off; to evade. The French government has parried the payment of our claims. E. Everett.

tion. -- Particular lien (Law), a lien, or a right to retain a thing, for some charge or claim growing out of, or connected with, that particular thing. -- Particular redemption, the doctrine that the purpose, act, and provisions of redemption are restricted to a limited number of the human race. See Calvinism.…

Hence, colloquially and figuratively: A support; a reason; a pretext; as, a peg to hang a claim upon.

ng person; as, a personal pronoun. Personal action (Law), a suit or action by which a man claims a debt or personal duty, or damages in lieu of it; or wherein he claims satisfaction in damages for an injury to his person or property, or the specific recovery of goods or chattels; -- opposed to real action. -- Personal…

, as distinguished from a possessory suit; also (Scots Law), a suit wherein the plaintiff claims something as due him by the defendant. Burrill.

To advocate like a pettifogger; to argue trickily; as, to pettifog a claim. [Colloq.]

To argue in support of a claim, or in defense against the claim of another; to urge reasons for or against a thing; to attempt to persuade one by argument or supplication; to speak by way of persuasion; as, to plead for the life of a criminal; to plead with a judge or with a father. O that one might plead for a man wit…

of the plaintiff and defendant, or written statements of the parties in support of their claims, proceeding from the declaration of the plaintiff, until issue is joined, and the question made to rest on some single point. Blackstone.

A tract of low land reclaimed from the sea by of high embankments. [Holland & Belgium]

a helper one who has an interest in the cause. Bacon. (b) A phrase often used to signify claiming the benefit of an argument. See under Aid. Mozley & W.

To proclaim or publish tidings; specifically, to proclaim the gospel; to discourse publicly on a religious subject, or from a text of Scripture; to deliver a sermon. How shall they preach, except they be sent Rom. x. 15. From that time Jesus began to preach. Matt. iv. 17.

To proclaim; to publish; also, to summon; to call. [Obs.] Bp. Burnet.