Answer:

claim

Answer	Crossword Clue
CLAIM	Homesteader's tract
CLAIM	Forty-niner's stake
CLAIM	Prospector's filing

CLAIM	Type of check
CLAIM	Contend
CLAIM	Thing filed with an insurance company
CLAIM	Contention
CLAIM	Insurance concern
CLAIM	Assertion
CLAIM	Dibs
CLAIM	Insurance filing

CLAIM	Assert
CLAIM	Gold-rush purchase
CLAIM	Prospector's parcel
CLAIM	Prospector's land
CLAIM	Say with assurance
CLAIM	Adjuster's case
CLAIM	Allege
CLAIM	Assertion of a right

CLAIM	Insurance case
CLAIM	Prospector's stake
CLAIM	Allegation
CLAIM	One may be filed
CLAIM	Insurance adjuster's concern
CLAIM	Assert, as a right
CLAIM	Maintain as fact
CLAIM	Prospector's piece of land

CLAIM	Adjuster's concern
CLAIM	Forty-niner's plot
CLAIM	Assert one's right to
CLAIM	Profess
CLAIM	Squatter's right
CLAIM	Stake
CLAIM	Word before check or jumper
CLAIM	Demand as a right

CLAIM	Forty-niner's filing
CLAIM	Insurance company mail
CLAIM	It may be filed
CLAIM	Affirm
CLAIM	Demand as due