What is CHOSE IN ACTION? Definition of CHOSE IN ACTION in Black's Law Dictionary - Legal dictionary - Glossary of legal terms.
A personal right not reduced into possession, but recoverable by a suit at law. North Carolina Bank & Trust Co. v. Williams, 160 S.E. 484, 485, 201 N.C. 464. A right to personal things of which the owner has not the possession, but merely a right of action for their possession. 2 Bl.Comm. 389, 397; 1 Chit.Pr. 99. The phrase includes all personal chattels which are not in possession; 11 App.Cas. 440; Powers v. Fisher, 279 Mich. 442; 272 N.W. 737, 739; and all property in action which depends entirely on contracts express or implied; Castle v. Castle, C.C.A. Hawaii, 267 F. 521, 523. A right to receive or recover a debt, demand, or damages on a cause of action ex contractu or for a tort or omission of a duty. Comyns, Dig. Biens. Moran v. Adkerson, 168 Tenn. 372, 79 S.W.2d 44, 45. Pickering v. Peskind, 43 Ohio App. 401, 183 N.E. 301, 303. A right to recover by suit a personal chattel. Garford Motor Truck Co. v. Buckson, 4 W.W.Harr. 103, 143 A. 410, 411. Assignable rights of action ex contractu and perhaps ex delicto. Coty v. Cogswell, 100 Mont. 496, 50 P.2d 249, 250. Personalty to which the owner has a right of possession in future, or a right of immediate possession, wrongfully withheld. And see Tumy v. Mayer, 289 Ill. 458, 124 N.E. 661, 662.
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