of being assigned, in equity the assignee
might have sued in his own name, making the assignor a party as
co-plaintiff or as defendant. The Judicature Acts made the distinction
between legal and equitable choses in action of no importance. The
Judicature Act of 1873, s. 25 (6), enacted that the legal right to a
debt or other legal chose in action could be passed by absolute
assignment in writing under the hand of the assignor.

"Chose in possession" is opposed to chose in action, and denotes not
only the right to enjoy or possess a thing, but also the actual or
constructive enjoyment of it. The possession may be absolute or
qualified. It is absolute when the person is fully and completely the
proprietor or owner of the thing; it is qualified when he "has not an
exclusive right, or not a permanent right, but a right which may
sometimes subsist and at other times not subsist," as in the case of
animals _ferae naturae_. A chose in possession is freely transferable by
delivery. Previously to the Married Women's Property Act 1882, a wife's
choses in possession vested in her husband immediately on her marriage,
while her choses in action did not belong to the husband until he had
reduced them into possession, but this difference is now practically
obsolete.

CHOSROES, in Middle and Modern Persian _Khosrau_ ("with a good name"), a
very common Persian name, borne by a famous king of the Iranian legend
(Kai Khosrau); by a Parthian king, commonly called by the Greeks Osroes
(q.v.); and by the following two Sassanid kings.

1. CHOSROES I., "the Blessed" (_Anushirvan_), 531-579, the favourite son
and successor of Kavadh I., and the most famous of the Sassanid kings.
At the beginning of his reign he concluded an "eternal" peace with the
emperor Justinian, who wanted to have his hands free for the conquest of
Africa and Sicily. But his successes against the Vandals and Goths
caused Chosroes to begin the war again in 540. He invaded Syria and
carried the inhabitants of Antioch to his residence, where he built for
them a new city near Ctesiphon under the name of Khosrau-Antioch or
Chosro-Antioch. During the next years he fought successfully in Lazica
or Lazistan (the ancient Colchis, q.v.), on the Black Sea, and in
Mesopotamia. The Romans, though led by Belisarius, could do little
against him. In 545 an armistice was concluded, but in Lazica the war
went on till 556. At last, in 562, a peace was concluded for 50 years,
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