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Chose in action
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.

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- Both choses in possession and choses in action represent separate proprietary interests. What differs between each is the method in which each chose may...
- Failure of the bank to pay is grounds for a chose in action. Do****ents presented after the time limits mentioned in the credit, however, are considered discrepant...
- Affirmative action (also sometimes called reservations, alternative access, positive discrimination or positive action in various countries' laws and...
- the ****ignee has received a token chose (chose being derived from the French word for "thing", as in a chose of action) - a physical object that signifies...
- securities, service (economics), and intangible ****ets including chose in action. Tangible personal property refers to any type of property that can...
- The Action démocratique du Québec ("Democratic Action of Quebec"), commonly referred to as the ADQ, was a right-wing populist and conservative provincial...
- can be the subject of a conversion in the United States. There cannot be an action in conversion for choses in action or mere debt. Computer software can...
- personal property (incorporeal rights) such as contract rights and choses in action; wills, codicils, or other testamentary do****ents; wild animals; and...
- interest in the common stock (in the sense of the general fund) or ****ets of the issuer corporation. The certificate evidences a chose in action against...
- Action Directe (French pronunciation: [aksjɔ̃ diʁɛkt]; AD; lit. 'direct action') was a French far-left militant group that originated from the anti-Franco...