continual claim

continual claim
A formal claim of right to the possession of land made by a person entitled thereto who does not dare enter through fear of his life or bodily harm. The claimant thus effects a livery in law, if he makes such claim during the lilt of the feoffor. 2 Bl Comm 316.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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