Legal Definition and Related Resources of Demand

claim as one’s due. require , seek relief. Also, to summon. See national Life & accident Ins. Co. v Dove, 174 S. W.2d245, 141 Tex. 464. A claim for anything with authority , a calling upon a person for anything due. An imperative request by one person to another, under a claim of right .

A claim; a legal obligation. Demand is a word of art of an extent greater in its signification than any other word except “claim.” Co. Litt. 291; 2 Hill (N. Y.) 220; 9 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 124; 6 Watts & S. (Pa.) 226. In Practice. A requisition or request to do a particular thing specified under a claim of right on the part of the person requesting.

verb

• arrogate
• ask
• ask for with authority
• assert a right to
• assert one’s rights
• call for
• claim
• claim as one’s due
• command
• direct
• enjoin
• exact
• give notice
• impose
• insist
• make application
• order
• present one’s claim
• press
• request
• require
• urge

noun

• asking for what is due
• assertion of legal right
• authoritative request
• behest
• bidding
• call
• claim
• command
• emphatic inquiry
• exigency
• imperative request
• imposition
• legal claim
• notice of claim
• order
• peremptory claim
• request to perform
• requirement
• requisite
• statement of claim
• ultimatum Associated Concepts: actual demand
• cross demand
• demand and refusal
• demand certificates
• demand deposits
• demand for payment
• demand for relief
• demand instruments
• demand note
• excessive demands
• legal demand
• notice and demand
• on demand
• presentment and demand
• unreasonable demand foreign phrases: Rogationes
• quaestiones
• et positiones debent esse simplices
• Demands
• questions
• and claims ought to be simple

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Accord And Satisfaction, Agency, Agent, Attornment, Bank Note, Bank Bill, Barrister, Bill Of Exchange, , Cashier’s Check, Check, Claim, Claimant, Cross Action, Demand Note, Derivative Action, Dispute, Distress, Equitable Lien, Indorsement, Keelage, , Liquidated Demand, Margin Account, Marshaling, Mutual Account, On Call, , Pignus, Present, Promissory Note, Quiet Enjoyment, Reclaim, Reconvention, Request, Require, Requisition, Revendication, Rogation, Set-off, Splitting A Cause Of Action, Stale, Things In Action.

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Demand in the Dictionary of Law consisting of Judicial Definitions and Explanations of Words, Phrases and Maxims

1. Any account upon which money or other thing is, or is claimed to be, due. Stringham v. Supervisors, 24 Wis. 600 (1869), Dixon, Chief Justice. A claim; a legal obligation. Hollen v. Davis, 59 Iowa 447 (1882); Code §3591. 2. A request, made under claim of right, to do some specified thing.

Note: This legal definition of Demand in the Dictionary of Law (English and American Jurisprudence) is from 1893.

Concept of Demand in the context of Real Property

Alternatives definitions of Demand: (1) The quantity of goods which can be sold at a specified price, in a given market, at a particular time. (2) A letter from a lender showing the amount due in order to pay off a mortgage or trust deed.

Concept of Demand in the context of Real Property

Alternatives definitions of Demand: (1) The quantity of goods which can be sold at a specified price, in a given market, at a particular time. (2) A letter from a lender showing the amount due in order to pay off a mortgage or trust deed.

Grammar

This term is a noun.

Etimology of Demand

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late 13c., “a question,” from Old French demande (see demand (verb)). Meaning “a request, claim” is from c. 1300. In the political economy sense (correlating to supply) it is attested from 1776 in Adam Smith.

Grammar

This term is a verb.

Etimology of Demand

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late 14c., “ask, make inquiry,” from Old French demander (12c.) “to request; to demand,” from Latin demandare “entrust, charge with a commission” (in Vulgar Latin, “to ask, request, demand”), from de- “completely” (see de-) + mandare “to order” (see mandate). Meaning “to ask for as a right” is early 15c., from Anglo-French legal use. Related: Demanded; demanding.

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Legal English Vocabulary: Supply and Demand in Spanish

Online translation of the English legal term supply and demand into Spanish: OFERTA Y DEMANDA (English to Spanish translation) . More about legal dictionary from english to spanish online.

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Legal English Vocabulary: Demand in Spanish

Online translation of the English legal term demand into Spanish: demanda (English to Spanish translation) . More about legal dictionary from english to spanish online.

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