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choses |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Chose \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.