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||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.
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