demand

demand
de·mand 1 n
1: a formal request or call for something (as payment for a debt) esp. based on a right or made with force
a shareholder must first make a demand on the corporation's board of directors to act — R. C. Clark
a written demand for payment
2: something demanded
any demand s against the estate see also claim
on demand: upon presentation and request for payment
demand 2 vt: to ask or call for with force, authority, or by legal right: claim as due
any party may demand a trial by jury of any issue triable of right by a jury — Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 38(b)
de·mand·able adj

Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. . 1996.

demand
I 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 slmplices. — Demands, questions, and claims ought to be simple
II 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 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:
- Nihil peti potest ante id tempus quo per rerum naturam persotvi possit. — Nothing can be demanded before the time when, in the nature of things, it can be paid.
- Judex non reddit plus quam quod petens ipse requirit. — A judge should not render judgments for a larger sum than the plaintiff demands.
III index call (demand), canon, cause of action, coerce, command, compel, compulsion (coercion), constrain (compel), detail (assign), dictate (noun), dictate (verb), direct (order), direction (order), directive, dun (noun), dun (verb), entail, exact, excise, excise (levy a tax), force (compulsion), force (coerce), importune, impose (enforce), insist, instruct (direct), levy, motion, necessitate, need (deprivation), need (requirement), need, order, outlet, petition, prerequisite, prescribe, press (constrain), request (noun), request (verb), require (compel), require (need), requirement, requisition, solicit, stress (strain), subpoena (noun), subpoena (verb), summon, ultimatum

Burton's Legal Thesaurus. . 2006


demand
n.
An insistent request under a claim of right, requiring someone to do or relinquish something to the demander.
v.
To require or insist on something; to ask authoritatively.

The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. . 2008.


demand
A claim or an assertion of a legal right or a right to compensation. (See also: demand letter)
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Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary. . 2009.


demand
1 n. A claim for money or other relief or the assertion of a legal right.
2 v. To claim money or other relief, or assert a legal right.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary. . 2000.


demand
Peremptory allegation or assertion of a legal right.

Dictionary from West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005.


demand
Peremptory allegation or assertion of a legal right.

Short Dictionary of (mostly American) Legal Terms and Abbreviations.

demand
   1) v. to claim as a need, requirement or entitlement, as in to demand payment or performance under a contract. In a lawsuit for payment of a debt or performance of an act, the party suing (plaintiff) should allege that he/she/it demanded payment or performance.
   2) n. a claim, such as an unqualified request for payment or other action.
   3) the amount requested by a plaintiff (usually in writing) during negotiations to settle a lawsuit.
   4) adj. referring to a note payable at any time a request to pay is made.
   See also: demand note

Law dictionary. . 2013.

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