Demand

Definition - Noun
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 ~ on the corporation's board of directors to act R. C. Clark> <a written ~ for payment>
2 : something demanded <any ~s against the estate>
see also claim
: upon presentation and request for payment

Definition - Transitive Verb
: to ask or call for with force, authority, or by legal right
: claim as due <any party may ~ a trial by jury of any issue triable of right by a jury Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 38(b)>

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