Chose (?), n.; pl. Choses (#). [F., fr. L. causa cause, reason. See [Cause].] [Law]

A thing; personal property.

[Chose in action], a thing of which one has not possession or actual enjoyment, but only a right to it, or a right to demand it by action at law, and which does not exist at the time in specie; a personal right to a thing not reduced to possession, but recoverable by suit at law; as a right to recover money due on a contract, or damages for a tort, which can not be enforced against a reluctant party without suit. -- [Chose in possession], a thing in possession, as distinguished from a thing in action. -- [Chose local], a thing annexed to a place, as a mill. -- [Chose transitory], a thing which is movable.

Cowell. Blount.

© [Webster 1913].

Chose (?),
imp. & p. p. of [Choose].

© [Webster 1913].

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