Choses in Action definition

Choses in Action means a right to receive or recover property, debt, or damages on a cause of action, whether pending or not and whether arising in contract, tort or otherwise. The term shall include rights to indemnification, damages for breach of warranty or any other event or circumstance, judgments, settlements, and proceeds from judgments or settlements.
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Choses in Action means a right to receive or recover property, debt or damages on a cause of action, whether pending or not and whether arising in contract, tort or otherwise. The term shall include rights to indemnification, damages for breach of warranty or any other event or circumstance, judgments, settlements, and proceeds from judgments or settlements.
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Choses in Action shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.01(h).
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Examples of Choses in Action in a sentence

  • Smith, Law of As- signment: The Creation and Transfer of Choses in Action 318, 321 (2007).

  • Kevin Sobel-Read, Glenn Andersson, and Jaakko Salminen, ‘Recalibrating Contract Law: Choses in Action, Global Value Chains and the Enforcement of Obligations Outside of Privity’, 93 Tulane Law Review 1, 1–46 (2018).

  • Section 25(6) of the Judicature Act: all legal Choses in Action have been made assignable.

  • Walter Wheeler Cook, The Alienability of Choses in Action, 29 HARV.

  • By contrast, a 'future chose in action' or expectancy is the mere prospect or possibility of possessing a future proprietary right: Norman (1963) 109 CLR 9 at 26; [1964] ALR 131 at 146; see also Starke, JG, Assignments of Choses in Action in Australia (1972) at page 6.

  • For early work documenting the history of this development see: Walter Wheeler Cook, The Alienability of Choses in Action, 29 HARV.

  • Damian Reichel, Note, The Law of Maintenance and Champerty and the Assignment of Choses in Action, 10 SYDNEY L.

  • Den samlade forskningen visar att det inte går att generalisera antagandet att ett högt kvinnligt deltagarantal från en specifik grupp garanterar varaktig fred.

  • Judicature Act 1873: Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1873.Marshall: OR Marshall, The Assignment of Choses in Action (London, 1950).Meagher, Gummow & Lehane: RP Meagher, JD Heydon and MJ Leeming, Meagher, Gummow and Lehane’s Equity Doctrines and Remedies, 4th edn (Australia, 2002).Smith: M Smith, The Law of Assignment (Oxford, 2007).Treitel: E Peel, Treitel on the Law of Contract, 12th edn (Oxford, 2007).Tolhurst: G Tolhurst, The Assignment of Contractual Rights (Oxford, 2006).

  • The majority (Dixon and Evatt JJ) said (at 438-439): The object of the requirement made by the words “of which express notice in writing shall have been given” is, we think, correctly stated in Warren’s Choses in Action (1899), at pp.


More Definitions of Choses in Action

Choses in Action means all choses in action held by the Partnership in connection with an activity or undertaking involving the LIL or any part of it and which are assigned to Opco under the provisions of this Agreement, including the LIL Real Property Rights, the Contracts, and all Permits that are property at law;
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Choses in Action means any claims, rights, causes of action or choses in action held by the Debtor, including without limitation, all rights of the Debtor under Sections 544, 545, 547, 548, 549 and 553 of the Bankruptcy Code, against any person, including, without limitation, any claims that the Debtor may have against current or former officers and directors of the Debtor in connection with transactions involving funds of Casinos U.S.A., Inc.
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Choses in Action means all claims and choses in action of the Vendors except those included as part of the Excluded Assets;
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Related to Choses in Action

  • Bail-In Action means the exercise of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by the applicable EEA Resolution Authority in respect of any liability of an EEA Financial Institution.

  • Legal Action means and includes any claim, counterclaim, demand, action, suit, counterclaim, arbitration, inquiry, proceeding or investigation before any

  • Tort action means a civil action for damages for injury, death, or loss to person or property other than a civil action for damages for a breach of contract or another agreement between persons or government entities.

  • Quebec Action means the Quebec Action as defined in Schedule A.

  • Action shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(j).

  • Ontario Action means the Ontario Action as defined in Schedule A.

  • Material Action means to consolidate or merge the Company with or into any Person, or sell all or substantially all of the assets of the Company, or to institute proceedings to have the Company be adjudicated bankrupt or insolvent, or consent to the institution of bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against the Company or file a petition seeking, or consent to, reorganization or relief with respect to the Company under any applicable federal or state law relating to bankruptcy, or consent to the appointment of a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other similar official) of the Company or a substantial part of its property, or make any assignment for the benefit of creditors of the Company, or admit in writing the Company's inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, or take action in furtherance of any such action, or, to the fullest extent permitted by law, dissolve or liquidate the Company.

  • Hearing means an oral hearing and includes a hearing conducted in whole or in part by video link, telephone or other means of instantaneous two-way electronic communication;

  • Environmental Actions means any complaint, summons, citation, notice, directive, order, claim, litigation, investigation, judicial or administrative proceeding, judgment, letter, or other communication from any Governmental Authority, or any third party involving violations of Environmental Laws or releases of Hazardous Materials from (a) any assets, properties, or businesses of Borrower or any predecessor in interest, (b) from adjoining properties or businesses, or (c) from or onto any facilities which received Hazardous Materials generated by Borrower or any predecessor in interest.

  • Environmental Action means any action, suit, demand, demand letter, claim, notice of non-compliance or violation, notice of liability or potential liability, investigation, proceeding, consent order or consent agreement relating in any way to any Environmental Law, any Environmental Permit or Hazardous Material or arising from alleged injury or threat to health, safety or the environment, including, without limitation, (a) by any governmental or regulatory authority for enforcement, cleanup, removal, response, remedial or other actions or damages and (b) by any governmental or regulatory authority or third party for damages, contribution, indemnification, cost recovery, compensation or injunctive relief.

  • Actions means all actions, litigation, complaints, claims, charges, accusations, investigations, petitions, suits, arbitrations, mediations or other proceedings, whether civil or criminal, at law or in equity, or before any arbitrator or Governmental Entity.

  • Causes of Action means any claims, interests, damages, remedies, causes of action, demands, rights, actions, suits, obligations, liabilities, accounts, defenses, offsets, powers, privileges, licenses, liens, indemnities, guaranties, and franchises of any kind or character whatsoever, whether known or unknown, foreseen or unforeseen, existing or hereinafter arising, contingent or non-contingent, liquidated or unliquidated, secured or unsecured, assertable, directly or derivatively, matured or unmatured, suspected or unsuspected, in contract, tort, law, equity, or otherwise. Causes of Action also include: (a) all rights of setoff, counterclaim, or recoupment and claims under contracts or for breaches of duties imposed by law; (b) the right to object to or otherwise contest Claims or Interests; (c) claims pursuant to sections 362, 510, 542, 543, 544 through 550, or 553 of the Bankruptcy Code; and (d) such claims and defenses as fraud, mistake, duress, and usury, and any other defenses set forth in section 558 of the Bankruptcy Code.

  • Lawsuit means any lawsuit, arbitration or other dispute resolution filed by either party herein pertaining to any of this Warrant, the Facility Agreement and the Registration Rights Agreement.

  • criminal proceedings means criminal proceedings in relation to which the strict rules of evidence apply;

  • Transaction Litigation has the meaning set forth in Section 5.2(d).

  • third party proceeding means any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative, or investigative, other than an action by or in the right of the corporation.

  • Criminal proceeding means a proceeding instituted by means of the swearing of an information, the laying of a charge or the return of an indictment, before a Court of competent jurisdiction in Canada with jurisdiction to hear and determine the charges referred to therein, alleging or charging that the "Insured" has contravened the provisions of any Provincial or Federal statute, including the Criminal Code, R.S.C. 1985 ch. C-46 as amended, which creates an offence or crime and which provides for conviction thereunder, whether by way of summary conviction or indictment, and as a result of which the "Insured" is liable to be convicted, fined or sentenced to some form of imprisonment or other punishment.

  • Third Party Claims has the meaning set forth in Section 11.1.

  • Third Party Action means any suit or proceeding by a person or entity other than a Party for which indemnification may be sought by a Party under Article VII.

  • Company Indemnitees shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5.02.

  • Retained Causes of Action means those Causes of Action that shall vest in the Reorganized Debtors on the Effective Date, which, for the avoidance of doubt, shall not include any of the Causes of Action that are settled, released or exculpated under the Plan.

  • Improper governmental action means any action by a district officer or employee:

  • resolution action means the decision to place an institution or entity referred to in point (b), (c) or (d) of Article 1(1) under resolution pursuant to Article 32 or 33, the application of a resolution tool, or the exercise of one or more resolution powers;

  • Collection Action means any of the following:

  • Governmental Actions means any and all consents, approvals, permits, orders, authorizations, waivers, exceptions, variances, exemptions or licenses of, or registrations, declarations or filings with, any Governmental Authority required under any Governmental Rules.

  • Bankruptcy Case has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.05(b).