CHOSE (Fr.), "a thing;" used in the common law with divers epithets; as chose local, chose transitory, and chose in action. Chose local is such a thing as is annexed to a place, as a mill and the like; chose transitory is that thing which is moveable, and may be taken away, or carried from place to place; and chose in action is a thing incorporeal, and only a right, as an obligation for debt, annuity, &c. And generally all causes of suit for any debt, duty, or wrong, are to be accounted chose in action: and it seems, chose in action may be also called chose in suspense; because it hath no real existence or being, nor can properly be said to be in our possession.