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A person making a claim. Syn. plaintiff.
In the courts of admiralty, when the suit is in rem, the cause is entitled in the name of the libellant against the thing libelled, as A B v. Ten cases of calico and it preserves that title through the whole progress of the suit. When a person is authorized and admitted to defend the libel, he is called the claimant.
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