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lives and labours contributed to refcue tbe cburcb from 
the reproaches which the follies of others had drawn upon 
it. Dr. Clagett publilbed feveral ufeful books; but his 
principal work is his Dilcourfe concerning the Operations 
of the Holy Spirit; nor mult it be forgotten that he was 
one of thofe excellent divines who made a noble ftand 
againlt the defigns of James II. Four volumes of his fer- 
mons were publifhed after his death, by his brother Ni¬ 
colas Clagett, archdeacon of Sudbury, father of Nicolas 
Clagett, afterwards bilhop of Exeter. 
CLAG'GON BAY, a bay of Ireland, on the coaft of 
Galway, fouth of Claggon Point. 
CLAG'GON POINT, a cape of Ireland, on the welt 
coaft of the county of G'alway. Lat. 53. 34.. N. Ion. 10. 4. 
W, Greenwich. 
To CLAIM, •v.a. [darner, Fr.] To demand of right; 
to require-authoritatively; not to beg or accept as favour, 
but to exarit as due.—We muft knowhow the firft ruler, 
from whom any one claims, came by his authority, before 
we can know who has a right to fucceed him in it. Locke. 
Poets have an undoubted right to claim, 
Yf not the greateft, the molt lafting name. 'Congreve. 
CLAIM,/ A demand of any thing, as due : 
"Forfworn thyfelf! The traitor’s odious name 
I firft return, and then difprove thy claim , Dry den. 
A title to any privilege or pofleflion in the hands of an¬ 
other.—Either there mult have been but one fovereign 
over them all, or elfe every father of a family had been 
as good a prince, and had as good a claim to royalty, as 
thele. Locke. —The phrafes are commonly to make claim, 
or to lay claim —If God, by politive grant, gave dominion 
to any man, primogeniture can lay no claim to it, unlefs 
God ordained. Locke. 
CLAIM, [ clameum , Lat.] in law, a challenge of interelt 
in any thing that is in the pofleflion of another, or at leall 
out of a man’s own pofleflion; as claim by charter, by 
-defeent, &c. In Plow. Com. 359. Dyer, chief juftice, is 
laid to have defined claim to be, a challenge of the owner- 
fhip or property that one hath not in poflellion, but which 
■is detained from him by wrong. Claim is either verbal, 
where one doth by words claim and challenge the thing 
'that is fo out of his poffelfion ; or it is by an addon brought; 
and lometimes it relates to lands, and fometimes to goods 
and chattels. Where any thing is wrongfully detained 
from a perfon, this claim is to be made; and the party 
making if, may thereby avoid defeents of lands, difleifins. 
See. and preferve his title, which otherwjle would be in 
danger of being loll. Co. Lit. 250. A man who hath pre- 
fient right or title to enter, mult make a claim; and, in 
cafe of reverfions, one may make a claim where he hath 
right, but cannot enter on the lands; when a perfon 
dares not make an entry on land, for fear of being beaten, 
.or other injury, he may approach as near as lie can to the 
Jand, and claim the fame ; and that lhall be fufficient to 
.veil the feifin in him. 1 Injl. 250. See Entry. 
If nothing doth hinder a man, having a right to land, 
from entering, or making his claim, there he mult do fo, 
.‘before he lhall be laid to be in pofleflion of it, or can grant 
at over to another; but where the'party who hath right 
is in poflellion already, and where an entry or claim can¬ 
not be made, it is otherwife. 1 Rep. 157. A claim will 
divelt an eftate out of another, when the party mull enter 
into tome part of the land ; but if it be only to bring him 
into pofleflion, he may do it iiqview. By claim of lands, 
in molt cafes, is intended a claim with an entry into part 
of the lands, or by a near approach to it. Co. Lit. 252. 
•One in a peverfion after an ellate for.years, or after a lia- 
tute-merchant, ftaple, or elegit, may enter and make a 
claim to prevent a defeent, or avoid a collateral warranty. 
And claim of a remainder by force of a condition muft be 
upon the land, or it will not be fufficient. If a man feifed 
4 lands, in right of his wife, make a feoffment in fee on 
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condition, and the hulband dieth, and then the condition 
is broken, and the heir enters; in this cafe the wife need 
not claim to get pofleflion of her eftate, for the law doth 
veil; it in her without any claim. Co. Lit. 202. 
The claim of the particular tenant ftiall be good fop 
him in reverlion or remainder; and of him in reverfion, 
&c. for particular tenant; fo claim of a copyholder will 
be good for the lord. But if tenant for years in a court 
of record claim the fee of his lands, it is a forfeiture of 
his eftate. Plovud. 359. A claim may be made by the 
party himfelf, and fometimes' by his lervants or deputy ; 
and a guardian in focage may make a claim or enter, in 
the name of the infant that hath right, without any com¬ 
mandment. Co. Lit. 245. Claim or entry Ihould be made 
as foon as may be ; and, by the common law, it is to be 
within a year and a day after the diffeifin, &c. and if the 
party who hath unjuftly gained the eftate do afterwards 
occupy the land, in forrie cafes an affife, trefpafs, or forci¬ 
ble entry, may be had ag;*inft him. Lit. 426. 430. If a 
fine is levied of laijds, ftrangers to it are to enter and 
make a claim within five years, or be barred ; infants af¬ 
ter their age, feme coverts after the death of their huf- 
bands, &c. have the like time. St at. 1 R. III. c. 7. 
Continual claim, is where a man hath right and title to 
enter into any lands or tenements, whereof another is 
feifed in fee, or in fee-tail; if he who hath title to enter 
makes continual claim to the lands or tenements before 
the dying feifed of him who holdeth the tenements, then 
though fuch tenant die thereof feifed, and the lands or 
tenements defeend to his heir, yet may he who hath made 
fuch continual claim, or his heir, enter into the lands or 
tenements fo defeended, by reafon of the continual claim 
made, notwithftanding the defeent. So, in cafe a man be 
dilfeifed, and the difleifee makes continual claim to the 
tenements in the life of the difieiibr, although the difleifor 
dieth feifed in fee, and the land defeend to his heir, yet 
may the difleifee enter upon the pofleflion ot the heir, not¬ 
withftanding the defeent. Lift. 414. But fuch claim muft 
always be made within the year and the day before the 
death of the perfon holding the land ; for, if fuch tenant 
do not die feifed within a year and a day after fuch claim 
made, and yet he that hath right dares riot enter, he muft 
make another claim within the year and the day after the 
firft claim, and fo toties quoties, that he may be fure his 
claim (hall always have been made within a year and a 
day before the death of the tenant; and hence it is called 
continual claim. By flat. 32 H. VIII. c. 43. five years muff; 
elaple without entry or continual claim, in order that a 
delcent on the difleifor’s death (liould take away the en¬ 
try of the difieifee, or his heir; but, after the five years, 
the difieifee muft make continual claim as before the fta- 
tute. And, by flat. 4 An. c. 16. no claim, or entry., (hall 
be of effeft to avoid a fine, unlefs an a&ion (hall be com¬ 
menced thereon within a year, and prolecuued with efteft. 
Claim of liberty , is a fuit or petition to the king in the 
court of exchequer, to have liberties and franchiles con¬ 
firmed there by the king’s attorney-general. Co. Ent. 93. 
And clamea admittenda in itinere per attomatum, is an an¬ 
cient writ by which the king commanded the juftices in 
eyre to admit a perfon’s claim by attorney who was em¬ 
ployed in the king’s fervice, and could not come in his 
own perfon. Reg. Orig. 19. 
CLAIMABLE, adj. That which may be demanded 
as due. 
CLAIMANT,/. He that demands any thing, as un¬ 
juftly detained by another. 
CLAIM'ER,/ He that makes a demand; he that re¬ 
quires any-thing, as unjuftly withheld from him. 
CLAIN, a river of France, which pafles by Poitiers, and 
runs into the Vienne, three miles fouth of Chatellerault. 
CLAIRA', a town of France, in the department of the 
eaftern Pyrennees: five miles north-eaft of Perpignan. 
CLAIRA'C, a town of France, in the department of 
the Lot and Garonne, and chief place of a santon, in the 
diftrift 
