Chose
Chose , noun
[French, from Latin causa cause, reason. See Cause.]
(Law) A thing; personal property.
Collocations (4)
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
Chose , imperfect and past participle
imp. & past participle of Choose.