|
chose 音標拼音: [tʃ'oz] vbl. 選擇,決心,欲
n. 動產 選擇,決心,欲動產 Choose \ Choose\, v. t. [ imp. { Chose}; p. p. { Chosen}, { Chose} ( Obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. { Choosing}.] [ OE. chesen, cheosen, AS. ce[' o] san; akin to OS. kiosan, D. kiezen, G. kiesen, Icel. kj[= o] sa, Goth. kiusan, L. gustare to taste, Gr. ?, Skr. jush to enjoy. [ root] 46. Cf. { Choice}, 2d { Gust}.] 1. To make choice of; to select; to take by way of preference from two or more objects offered; to elect; as, to choose the least of two evils. [ 1913 Webster] Choose me for a humble friend. -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To wish; to desire; to prefer. [ Colloq.] [ 1913 Webster] The landlady now returned to know if we did not choose a more genteel apartment. -- Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster] { To choose sides}. See under { Side}. Syn: Syn. - To select; prefer; elect; adopt; follow. Usage: To { Choose}, { Prefer}, { Elect}. To choose is the generic term, and denotes to take or fix upon by an act of the will, especially in accordance with a decision of the judgment. To prefer is to choose or favor one thing as compared with, and more desirable than, another, or more in accordance with one' s tastes and feelings. To elect is to choose or select for some office, employment, use, privilege, etc., especially by the concurrent vote or voice of a sufficient number of electors. To choose a profession; to prefer private life to a public one; to elect members of Congress. [ 1913 Webster]
Chose \ Chose\, n.; pl. { Choses}. [ F., fr. L. causa cause, reason. See { Cause}.] ( Law) A thing; personal property. [ 1913 Webster] { 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. [ 1913 Webster]
Chose \ Chose\, imp. & p. p. of { Choose}. [ 1913 Webster] CHOSE, property. This is a French word, signifying thing. In law, it is applied to personal property; as choses in possession, are such personal things of which one has possession; choses in action, are such as the owner has not the possession, but merely a right of action for their possession. 2 Bl. Com. 889, 397; 1 Chit. Pract. 99; 1 Supp. to Ves. Jr. 26, 59. Chitty defines choses in actions to be rights to receive or recover a debt, or money, or damages for breach of contract, or for a tort connected with contract, but which cannot be enforced without action, and therefore termed choses, or things in action. Com. Dig. Biens; Harr. Dig. Chose in Action Chitty' s Eq. Dig. b. t. Vide 1 Ch. Pr. 140. 2. It is one of the qualities of a chose in action, that, at common law, it is not assignable. 2 John. 1; 15 Mass. 388; 1 Cranch, 367. But bills of exchange and promissory notes, though choses in action, may be assigned by indorsement, when payable to order, or by delivery when payable to bearer. See Bills of Exchange. 3. Bonds are assignable in Pennsylvania, and perhaps some other states, by virtue of statutory provisions. Inequity, however, all choses in action are assignable and the assignee has an equitable right to enforce the fulfilment of the obligation in the name of the assignor. 4 Mass. 511; 3 Day. 364; 1 Wheat. 236; 6 Pick. 316 9 ow. 34; 10 Mass. 316; 11 Mass. 157, n. 9 S. & R. 2441; 3 Yeates, 327; 1 Binn. 429; 5 Stew. & Port. 60; 4 Rand. 266; 7 Conn. 399; 2 Green, 510; Harp. 17; Vide, generally, Bouv. Inst. Index, h. t. 4. Rights arising ex delicto are not assignable either at law or in equity. |
安裝中文字典英文字典查詢工具!
中文字典英文字典工具:
英文字典中文字典相關資料:
|