The fight over who can lay claim to a place is an old one.

I could lay claim to a lot of things in my life up until that point.

At least United can no longer lay claim to that record.

However, many other places in the county lay claim to the story.

Over the years two women laid claim to being his wife.

It is the sort of play in which the set can lay claim to being the star.

Soon the mark would be gone, but she knew she'd still feel every place where he'd laid claim to her.

Did she really think that university could lay claim to such a world as this?

What was she, that he could lay claim to her like this?

Her heart knew that whatever she wanted to believe, he had already laid claim, moved in, and taken over.