to crave

from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
TO CRAVE. To ask; to demand.
     2. This word is frequently used in pleading; as, to crave oyer of a 
bond on which the suit is brought; and in the settlement of accounts, the 
accountant general craves a credit or an allowance. 1 Chit. Pr. 520. See 
Oyer. 
    

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