Other possible claimants included a West Indian civil servant and a Texan truck driver.

Perhaps most important, it sought to bind all future possible claimants.

With fewer and fewer possible claimants seeking the office, the kingdom effectively disintegrated in the 1830s after the nobles failed to elect a new king.

A few minutes with a pillow would make him the only possible claimant.

The possible Catholic claimants, including Anne's half-brother, were ignored.

You've been married to two of them and you know every possible claimant.

The number of possible claimants is indeed staggering, and many experts say they are already overwhelming the legal system.

Relatively few of the victims' families, perhaps 300 out of more than 3,000 possible claimants, have so far signed up for the program.

"Well," continued Mr. Thornton, after a pause, "have you the remotest idea as to who these possible claimants against the property may be?"

Rumors of the underworld named various identities as possible claimants to the title.