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Webster 1913 Edition

Chose

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Chose

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Noun.
;
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.
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Chose in possession
,
a thing in possession, as distinguished from a thing in action.
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Chose local
,
a thing annexed to a place, as a mill.
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Chose transitory
,
a thing which is movable.
Cowell. Blount.

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Webster 1828 Edition

Chose

CHOSE

,
Noun.
In law, property in action; a right to possession; or that which may be demanded and recovered by suit or action at law. Thus, money due on a bond or note is a chose in action; a recompense for damage done is a chose in action; the former proceeding from an express, the latter from an implied contract. A contract executed is a chose in possession; a contract executory conveys only a chose in action. A chose local is annexed to a place, as a mill or the like; a chose transitory is a thing which is movable.

CHOSE

, s as z, pret. and p. of choose.

Definition 2024

Chose

Chose

See also: chose, CHOSE, and chôse

German

Alternative forms

Noun

Chose f ‎(genitive Chose, plural Chosen)

  1. thing, affair, matter
    • "Die ganze Chose" 'the whole shebang'

chose

chose

See also: Chose, CHOSE, and chôse

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: chōz, IPA(key): /tʃəʊz/
  • (US) enPR: chōz, IPA(key): /tʃoʊz/
  • Rhymes: -əʊz

Verb

chose

  1. simple past tense of choose

Etymology 2

French, from Latin causa ‎(“cause, reason”). See cause.

Noun

chose ‎(plural choses)

  1. (law) A thing; personal property.
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French

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin causa. Compare Italian cosa, Portuguese coisa, Spanish cosa among many others.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃoz/
  • (Quebec) IPA(key): [ʃou̯z]
  • Rhymes: -oz

Noun

chose f ‎(plural choses)

  1. thing
    • 1580, Michel de Montaigne , De la cruauté, Essais
      Les Agrigentins avaient en usage commun d’enterrer sérieusement les bêtes qu’ils avaient eu chères, comme les chevaux de quelque rare mérite, les chiens et les oiseaux utiles, ou même qui avaient servi de passe-temps à leurs enfants : et la magnificence qui leur était ordinaire en toutes autres choses paraissait aussi singulièrement à la somptuosité et nombre de monuments élevés à cette fin, qui ont duré en parade plusieurs siècles depuis.
      The Agrigentines had a common use solemnly to inter the beasts they had a kindness for, as horses of some rare quality, dogs, and useful birds, and even those that had only been kept to divert their children; and the magnificence that was ordinary with them in all other things, also particularly appeared in the sumptuosity and numbers of monuments erected to this end, and which remained in their beauty several ages after.

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Middle French

Noun

chose f (plural choses)

  1. thing

Norman

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Pronunciation

Adjective

chose m, f

  1. (Jersey) self-conscious

Old French

Alternative forms

  • cosa (very early Old French)
  • cose (chiefly Old Northern French)

Etymology

Latin causa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtʃɔ.zə/

Noun

chose f ‎(oblique plural choses, nominative singular chose, nominative plural choses)

  1. thing (miscellaneous object or concept)

Descendants

Etymology

From French chose

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈʃoːzə]

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