\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.

\Chose\,
imp. & p. p. of {Choose}.