0 a statement that someone makes in answer to a statement that has been made by someone else, and that is different from it:
1 a legal case that a person or an organization starts against someone who has brought a case against them:
This particular feature might suggest that they wished to have some counter-claim to their wives' affection even after their death.
There is the question of the counter-claim, the third party proceedings and interpleader proceedings and cross-petitions in divorce.
I cannot charge my memory on the spur of the moment with the period when these counter-claim declarations were made.
Whether it is described as a counter-claim or as a cancellation is really a matter of words.
It was right to reduce the importance of the matrimonial offence, with all its inherent tendencies to embittering claim and counter-claim.
The fourth point is that the employer might counter-claim.
The question of counter-claim in that class of case may become more important than it has been in the past.
Throughout the past 12 months, we have had ministerial claim and counter-claim about what the powers are to be.
