laying claim

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• February 29. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  laying claim — noun — english

  the act of taking possession of or power over something; "his assumption of office coincided with the trouble in Cuba"; "the Nazi assumption of power in 1934"; "he acquired all the company's assets for ten million dollars and the assumption of the company's debts"