In connection with any claim decided by the Commission pursuant to this Title in which an award is made, the Commission may, upon the written request of the claimant or any attorney heretofore or hereafter employed by such claimant, determine and apportion the just and reasonable attorney's fees for services rendered with respect to such claim, but the total amount of the fees so determined in any case shall not exceed 10 per centum of the total amount paid pursuant to the award.

Any claimant whose claim is denied, or is approved for less than the full amount of such claim, shall be entitled, under such regulations as the Commission may prescribe, to a hearing before the Commission, or its duly authorized representatives, with respect to such claim.

As stated in Seaboard and numerous other cases, the two primary reasons for the enactment of section 203 of the United States Code were to prevent the Government from having to deal with more than one claimant and to prevent the assignment of meretricious claims on a contingent-fee basis.

Alexios was for many years under the strong influence of an eminence grise, his mother Anna Dalassene, a wise and immensely able politician whom, in a uniquely irregular fashion, he had crowned as Augusta instead of the rightful claimant to the title, his wife Irene Doukaina.

Compensatory damages, called actual damages, are paid to compensate the claimant for loss, injury, or harm suffered as a result of ( see requirement of causation ) another's breach of duty.

General damages, sometimes styled hedonic damages, compensate the claimant for the non-monetary aspects of the specific harm suffered.

Special damages compensate the claimant for the quantifiable monetary losses suffered by the plaintiff.

Damages for breach of contract are generally awarded to place the claimant in the position in which he would have been had the contract not been breached.

If the transaction was a " good bargain " contract generally gives a better result for the claimant.

If the transaction were a " bad bargain ", tort gives a better result for the claimant.

After allying himself with Ferdinand, the Aragonese claimant to the throne of Naples, his next important act was to convene a congress of the representatives of Christian princes at Mantua for joint action against the Turks.

A plaintiff ( Π in legal shorthand ), also known as a claimant or complainant, is the term used in some jurisdictions for the party who initiates a lawsuit ( also known as an action ) before a court.

Eustace's death removed an obvious claimant to the throne and was politically convenient for those seeking a permanent peace in England.

The tort of nuisance allows a claimant ( formerly plaintiff ) to sue for most acts that interfere with their use and enjoyment of their land.

The law replies " since your employee harmed the claimant in the course of his employment, you bear responsibility for it, because you have the control to hire and fire him, and reduce the risk of it happening again.

The court will then quantify the damages for the actual loss or damage sustained, and then reduce the amount paid to the plaintiff / claimant by 20 %.

* January 1 – Bonnie Prince Charlie becomes the new Stuart claimant to the throne of Great Britain as King Charles III and figurehead for Jacobitism.

A new claimant, Hermann of Luxembourg, was put forward in August 1081, but his personality was not suitable for a leader of the Gregorian party in Germany, and the power of Henry IV was at its peak.

William the Aetheling having perished in the wreck of the White Ship ( 25 November 1120 ), Fulk, on his return from a pilgrimage to the Holy Land ( 1120 – 1121 ), married his second daughter Sibyl, at the instigation of Louis VI, to William Clito, son of Robert Curthose, and a claimant to the duchy of Normandy, giving her Maine for a dowry ( 1122 or 1123 ).

In about 1452, she married Sir John Grey of Groby, who was killed at the Second Battle of St Albans in 1461, fighting for the Lancastrian cause, which would become a source of irony as Edward IV was the Yorkist claimant to the throne.

The spring Passover feast ( often around April 21 ) has been cited as a possible date for the birth of Christ, assuming that this had relevance to being a Messiah claimant, or that his birthday might have been related to Passover.

Land offices relied on affidavits from witnesses that the claimant had lived on the land for the required period of time and made the required improvements.

In the United States, for example, if a Social Security Disability Insurance claimant is found " not disabled " ( and, therefore, ineligible for benefits ) by an Administrative Law Judge ( ALJ ) and the claimant appeals, both the Appeals Council ( the body within the Social Security Administration that hears appeals from decisions of ALJs ) and the Federal courts ( which, in this type of case, will normally hear an appeal only after the claimant has exhausted all administrative remedies ) will look to see whether the administrative law judge's decision was supported by " substantial evidence " or not.

* May 3 – Cruz Hernandez, unverified claimant to be world's oldest person ( d. 2007 )

The area has evidence of occupation dating from prehistoric times and is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the strongest claimant to being the oldest continuously inhabited place in Britain.

The Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania is a collegiate literary society, the oldest student group at the university, and a claimant to the title of the oldest continuously-existing literary society in the United States.

Maria Olívia da Silva ( attested 28 February 1880 – 8 July 2010 ) of Brazil is a claimant to the title of world's oldest person ever.

* William Coates ( longevity claimant ), disputed claimant to being the world's oldest person

* Mariam Amash ( born 1888 ), a claimant to the title of the oldest living person

Within this frame of reference policies appropriate to claims advanced in the name of the Jews depend upon which Jewish identity is involved, as well as upon the nature of the claim, the characteristics of the claimant, the justifications proposed, and the predispositions of the community decision makers who are called upon to act.

The Commission is authorized and directed to mail to each claimant in proceedings before the Commission notice of the provisions of this subsection.

One example of this ( from the Queen's Bench in England ) is Doyle v Olby ( Ironmongers ) Ltd 2 QB 158, the claimant appealed ( successfully ) on the basis that, although he won in the court below, the lower court had applied the wrong measure of damages and he had not been fully recompensated.

The 1927 parliamentary Select Committee on Peerages in Abeyance recommended that no abeyance should be considered which is longer in date than 100 years or where the claimant lays claim to at least one third of the dignity.

In practice this rarely happens as the cost on the claimant of bringing these proceedings is significant and in practice imprisonment is rarely ordered as an apology or fine are usually considered appropriate.

This is not easily quantifiable, and depends on the individual circumstances of the claimant.

* 1649 – The claimant King Charles II of England and Scotland is declared King of Great Britain, by the Parliament of Scotland.

Hugh Capet, the first Capetian king, is not a well documented figure, his greatest achievement being certainly to survive as king and defeating the Carolingian claimant, thus allowing him to establish what would become one of Europe's most powerful house of kings.

* 1328 – Antipope Nicholas V, a claimant to the papacy, is consecrated in Rome by the Bishop of Venice.

In English tort law, the effect of res ipsa loquitur is a strong inference in favour of the claimant that negligence has taken place.

In Common Law it is usually a requirement that this claim be false and that the publication is communicated to someone other than the person defamed ( the claimant ).

A slightly more limited defence may arise where the defendant has been given a warning, whether expressly to the claimant or by a public notice, sign or otherwise, that there is a danger of injury.

Thus, in evaluating a collision between two vehicles, the court must not only make a finding that both drivers were negligent, but it must also apportion the contribution made by each driver as a percentage, e. g. that the blame between the drivers is 20 % attributable to the plaintiff / claimant: 80 % to the defendant.

" If the claimant is involved in wrongdoing at the time the alleged negligence occurred, this may extinguish or reduce the defendant's liability.

The third contender, is not only most well documented, but most popular as a claimant.

** The case of the Tichborne Claimant is decided against the claimant Arthur Orton ( who, as a result, is convicted of perjury in 1874 ).