choses

1 definition found

choses - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Chose \Chose\, n.; pl. Choses. [F., fr. L. causa cause,
     reason. See Cause.] (Law)
     A thing; personal property.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
        [1913 Webster]