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claimholder en · NOUN

Etymology

From claim + holder.

Meanings

1. Someone who has a claim on a piece of real or intellectual property.
   • In and extreme model, the original claimholder would be paid the entire agreed sum at the time of the assignment, so that the claimholder would be disinterested in the dispute, although this may create issues of adverse selection. 2019 September 26, Gian Marco Solas, Third Party Funding, Cambridge University Press, page 153:
   • In cases where the gutter or lead changes its course from the supposed one the position of the original claims shall be changed accordingly taking precedence according to their numbers, it is not competent for a claimholder in a proceeding before the Warden under No. 32, sec. 77, to eject another occupying claimholder, on the basis that the lead has changed its direction, and that a measurement along its sinuosities will give the occupying claimholder more than his proper length of the lead. 1863, Alfred Wyatt, George H. F. Webb, REPORTS OF OF CASES ARGUED AND DETERMINED IN THE SUPREME COURT OF VICTORIA, volume II, Sands and McDougall, page 231:
   • It assumes instead that the claimholder has no right to a patent until the claim has reached the clearlist. 1991 June 11, Mining Law Reform Act of 1991 and the Minerals Policy Review Commission Act of 1991: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Mineral Resources Development and Production of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, volume 4, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 277:

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