Chose /(?)/

Chose

n.

pl. Choses

  1. A thing; personal property. (Law)

Phrases & Compounds

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.

Chose

imp. & p. p.
  1. imp. & p. p. of Choose.