reclaimantn.

c1600 in Balfour's Practicks (1754) 416 That the reclamant maid faith, that he had just cause to reclame thairfra.

1723 D. Waterland Second Vindic. Christ's Divinity Pref. p. vii The famous Council of Nice, consisting of 318 Bishops, very unanimous in their Resolutions, excepting a few Reclaimants.

1755 N. Magens Ess. Insurances I. 325 Capt. John Hunt's Lawsuit Charges, which the Reclaimants engaged to satisfy.

1778 Sketches for Tabernacle Frames 15 Acting..the mild Reclaimant's Part.

1811 Eclectic Rev. 7 ii. 990 We have a right to act upon this doctrine [sc. that the slave trade is wrong], assuming it to be an universal law of the world, till an exception is proved by the reclaimant of the slave ship we capture.

1848 W. W. Collins Mem. Life W. Collins I. iii. 240 The reclaimant..had only been asked as first representative of the City of London, and now that he had relapsed into plain Alderman, the invitation had necessarily been forwarded to his successor.

1872 Times 17 June 11/1 The reclaimant would go before a superior tribunal, and would say that he had entered into what he had thought to be an agreement to refer a certain matter to arbitration.

1905 T. F. Sedgewick Relating to Sugar Industry Peru 35 The sugar beet can be grown on the alkali soils of Peru; it would serve as a partial reclaimant and, possibly, a good rotation crop.

1958 Yale Law Jrnl. 68 28 The receivership adjudication bars any attempts by the reclaimant to obtain the property from the bankruptcy trustee.

1999 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 1 Apr. d4 The reclaimants will provide details of the amend and enclose either his or her cancelled cheque or a valid photocopy thereof, testamented by a duly licensed notaire.