chose : Idioms & Phrases


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.
Webster 1913

Chose in possession

  • a thing in possession, as distinguished from a thing in action.
Webster 1913

Chose local

  • a thing annexed to a place, as a mill.
Webster 1913

Chose transitory

  • a thing which is movable. Cowell. Blount.
Webster 1913