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claim of title:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1.<\/strong> Same as\u00a0claim of right<\/strong><\/span>.\u00a0<\/em>[1]<\/span><\/p>\n

1. The entry and occupation of land with the intent to hold it as the claimant’s own against the world, irrespective of any shadow or color or right or title as a foundation of his claim. Anno: 2 ALR 1457<\/span>.<\/strong> [2]<\/span><\/p>\n

1.<\/strong> See CLAIM OF OWNERSHIP<\/strong><\/span>. [3]<\/span><\/p>\n

claim of ownership<\/span>:<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\n(1818)<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Same as\u00a0claim of right<\/strong><\/span>.\u00a0<\/em>[1]<\/span><\/p>\n

1. See\u00a0claim of right<\/strong><\/span>.\u00a0<\/em>[2]<\/span><\/p>\n

1. The possession of a piece of property with the intention of claiming it in hostility to the true owner.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

2. A party’s manifest intention to take over land, regardless of title or right.\u00a0<\/strong>\u2014 aka\u00a0claim of right<\/strong><\/span>; claim of title<\/strong><\/span>.\u00a0<\/em>[3]<\/span><\/p>\n

claim of right<\/span>:<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\n (16c)<\/span><\/p>\n

1. An entry upon land with the intent to claim and hold it for one’s own, even though the claimant does not have title to the land and has no right to be on it.<\/strong> [1]<\/span><\/p>\n

1. An entry upon land with the intent to claim the land and to hold it; the intention of the disseisor to appropriate and use land as his own to the exclusion of all others, irrespective of any semblance or shadow of actual title or right. \u00a0Guaranty Title & Trust Corp. v United States<\/span><\/em>, 265 US 200, 204, 68 L Ed 636, 638, 44 S Ct 252<\/span>.<\/strong> [2]<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Hist.\u00a0<\/em>A criminal defendant’s plea that the defendant committed the act in question under the mistaken but honest belief hat it was legal. \u00a0* \u00a0Defendant accused of theft often raised his plea, asserting an honest belief in a superior right to the property taken. \u00a0The claim of right could also be raised as a defense against bigamy if the defendant honestly believes that an earlier marriage had been legally dissolved. \u00a0The usual phrase today is\u00a0<\/strong>honest defense.<\/strong> \u00a0<\/em>Cf.\u00a0honesty defense\u00a0<\/em>under DEFENSE (1)<\/span><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Hist.\u00a0<\/em>An owner’s action to recover unjustly taken land in fee simple by employing a writ of course. \u00a0<\/strong>See WRIT OF COURSE.<\/span><\/p>\n

3. CLAIM OF OWNERSHIP<\/span>.<\/strong> [3]<\/span><\/p>\n

References:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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[1]:\u00a0\u00a0Ballantine\u2019s Law Dictionary <\/a><\/span><\/strong>Legal<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em> Assistant<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em> Edition<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em>
\nby Jack Ballantine\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>(James Arthur 1871-1949).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Doctored<\/span><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/em>by\u00a0Jack G. Handler,\u00a0J.D.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a9 1994 Delmar by Thomson Learning.\u00a0 ISBN 0-8273-4874-6.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[2]: Ballantine\u2019s Law <\/a><\/span><\/strong>Dictionary\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/strong>with<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em> Pronunciations<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em> Third Edition<\/a>\u00a0by James A. Ballantine\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>(James Arthur 1871-1949).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Edited by William S. Anderson.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a9 1969 by THE LAWYER\u2019S CO-OPERATIVE PUBLISHING COMPANY.\u00a0 Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 68-30931.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[3]: Black’s Law Dictionary <\/a><\/span><\/strong>Deluxe<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em> Tenth<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em> Edition<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em> by Henry Campbell Black, Editor in Chief Bryan A. Garner. ISBN: 978-0-314-61300-4.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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