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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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