An entitlement is a legally enforceable claim upon the Federal Government.

A wage assignment gave the lender an enforceable claim on the debtor's next wage payment.

As recently as a decade ago, patents were only marginally enforceable claims that judges considered highly suspicious on antitrust grounds.

Windscheid's thesis established the modern German law concept of Anspruch (roughly, a legally enforceable claim), distinguishing it from the Roman law concept of actio.

Passengers' rights should be strengthened in the passenger rail services of all EU Member States, with the possibility of legally enforceable claims for compensation in the event of delays.

However, in the case of Ms Ferguson, the Duchess of York, the Ministry of the Interior has a legally enforceable claim," a spokesman told Anadolu, the state-run news agency.

ASSESSMENTS - Enforceable claims for nonexchange revenue for which specific amounts due have been determined and the person from whom the tax or duty is due has been identified.

The House bill says explicitly that there will be "no Federal entitlement" to medical assistance and that no person will have a legally enforceable claim against a state that fails to comply with Federal Medicaid law.

The latter word, eschewed by the summiteers, applies to agreements and has a legal use: an enforceable claim offers a cause of action, and the essence of legality is that a contract is "enforceable in a court of law."