Chose /(?)/
Chose
n.
pl. Choses
- 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.
- imp. & p. p. of Choose.