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claimholder

claimholder noun: someone who has a claim on a piece of real or intellectual property.

Noun

claimholder (plural claimholders)

  1. Someone who has a claim on a piece of real or intellectual property.
    • 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...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...

Forms of claimholder

pluralclaimholders

Origin of claimholder

From claim + holder.

Questions about claimholder

What does claimholder mean?
Claimholder means someone who has a claim on a piece of real or intellectual property.
What part of speech is claimholder?
Claimholder is a noun.
What is the plural of claimholder?
The plural of claimholder is claimholders.

Words near claimholder in the dictionary

  1. claimer
  2. claimers
  3. claimes
  4. claimest
  5. claimeth
  6. claimholder
  7. claimholders
  8. claimin'
  9. claiming
  10. claiming bite
  11. claiming bites

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