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ture, is reprefented. by a woman in a liabit of a change¬ 
able colour, plain and fhort; in her right hand a mea- 
i'uring-fquare, and in her left a pair of compalTes. By 
flier fide a globe, with Come part of it deiigned. Her 
changeable habit denotes the different taking of fitua- 
tions, as the fhortnefs of it does their being taken briefly. 
The ufes of the inftrument and compafle.s are obvious. 
CHOROI'DES, J. [from yo^ot, the chorion, and siooc, 
a likenefs.] In anatomy, the name of feveral membranes, 
which on account of their many blood-veffels referable 
the chorion. 
CHO'ROL, a town of Ruflia, on the river of the fame 
name, in the government of Kiov: 100 miles fouth-ealt 
of Kipv, and 252 foutli of Peterfburg. 
CHO'ROL, a river of Ruflia, which runs into the Pfol, 
near Goltva, in the government of Kiov. 
CHOROSCIES'SOW, a'town of Poland, in the pala¬ 
tinate of Kiov : iixty-four miles weft-north-weft of Kiov. 
CHOROS'KI, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Volliynia: eighteen miles north-welt of Zytomiers. 
CHGROSSO'ZA, a town of Poland, in the palatinate 
of Bieifk : twenty-eight miles north of Bielfk. 
CHOR'RO MAN'CAN, a town of Chinefe Tartary. 
Lat. 43.18. N. Ion- 138. 36. E. Ferro. 
CHO'RUS,/ [chorus, Lat.] A number of fingers ; a 
concert.—The Grecian tragedy was at firft nothing but a 
chorus of fingers: afterwards one adtor was introduced. 
Dry dm. 
In praife fo juft let every voice be join’d, 
And fill the general chorus of mankind! Pope. 
The perfons who are fuppofed to behold what paffes in 
the adds of a tragedy, and fing their fentiments between 
the adls: 
For fupply, 
Admit me chorus to this hiftory. Shakefpeare. 
The long between the adds of a tragedy. Verfes of a fong, 
in which the company join the finger. 
CKOSCIABAD', a town of~ Perfia, in the province of 
K irman: fifty-leven miles fouth-weft of Sirgian. 
CHOSE, f. [Fr. a thing.] In the common law, it is 
with divers epithets ; as cbofe local, chofe tranfitory, and 
chofe in adiion. Chofe local is fuch a thing as is annexed 
to a place, as a mill, and the like; and chofe tranfitory 
is that thing which is moVeable, and may be taken away, 
or carried from place to place -. chole in action is a thing 
incorporeal, and only a right, as an annuity, obligation 
for debt, &c. And generally ail caufes of fuit for any 
debt, duty, or wrong, are to be accounted chofes in ac¬ 
tion ; and it leems chofe in addion may be alfo called 
chofe in fufpence, becaufe it hath no real exiftence or being, 
nor can properly be laid to he in our pofleflion. i Lil. 
Abr. 264. A perfon dilfeifes me of land, or takes away 
my goods; my right or title of entry into the lands, or 
adlion and fuit for it, and lo for the goods, is a chofe in 
adlion-. fo a debt on an obligation, and power and right 
of action to fue for the fame. 1 Brdhvnl. 33. And a con¬ 
dition and power of re-entry into land upon a feoffment, 
gift, or grant, before the performance of the condition, is 
of the nature of a chofe in adiion. Co. Lit. 214. If one have 
an advowlon, when the church becomes void, the prefen- 
tation is but as a chofe in aElion, and not gran table ; but 
it is otherwifebefore the church is void. Dyeri^G. Where 
a man hath a judgment againft another for money, or on 
a Idatute, thefe are chofes in adlion. An annuity in fee to 
a man and his heirs, is grantable over : but it has been 
held, that an annuity is a chofe in adlion, and not grant- 
able. 5 Rep. 89. Fitz. Grant, 45. A chofe in adlion cannot 
be transferred over; nor is it defirable : nor can a chofe 
in adlion be a fatisfafidion, as one bound cannot be pleaded 
to be given in fatisfafdion for another; but in equity 
chofes in adlion may be aflignable ; and the king’s grant of 
a chofe in adlion is good. Cro. Jac. 170. Chan. Rep. 169. 
Charters, where the owner of the land hath them in 
pofleflion, are grantable: a poflibility of an intereft or 
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eftate in a term for years, is near to a chofe in adlion, and 
therefore may not be granted: but a poflibility, joined 
with an intereft, may be a grantable chattel. Co. Lit. 265. 
And this the law doth provide, to avoid multiplicity of 
iuits, and the fubverfion of juftice, which would follow 
if thefe things were grantable from one man to another. 
But by releafe chofes in adlion may be releafed and dif- 
c'narged for ever; but then it mull be to parties and pri¬ 
vies in the eftate, See. for no ftranger may take advantage 
of things in adlion ; fave oniy in Ibnle fpecial cafes. Co. 
Lit. 214. 
CHOSE, [the preter tenfe, and fometimes the partici¬ 
ple paflive, from to choofe .] 
Our fovereign here above the reft might Hand, 
And here be chofe again to rule the land. Dryden » 
CKO'SEN, [the participle paflive, from to choofe. ] 
If king Lewis vouchfafe to furnifti us 
With Tome few bands of chofcn fcldiers, 
I’ll undertake to land them on our coaft. Shakefpeare. 
CHOS'ROES, the name of two very diftinguiflied Per- 
fian monarchs. See Persia. 
CHOS'SESO, a town of Poland, in the palatinate cf 
Volhynia: fixty-fonr miles eaft of Lucko. 
CHOSTTARN, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
of Bavaria : twenty-two miles weft-fouth-weft of Paflau. 
CHO'TA, a town of the American States, in the dif- 
trift of Georgia: fifty-five miles weft of Tugeloo. 
CHO'TA, a town of South America, in Peru, and ju- 
rifdibiion of Caxamarca: fixty miles north-weft of Caxa- 
marca. 
CHOTAS'TITZ, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 
Czaflau : two miles north of Czaflau. 
CHO'TIEBOR, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 
Czaflau: eight miles north-north-eaft of Teutfch-Brod. 
CHOT'MIZSK, a town of Ruflia, in the government 
of Charkov: fifty-two miles north-north-weft of Charkov, 
and 588 fouth-fouth-eaft of Peterlburg. 
CHO'TOW, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Minfk : twenty-two miles fouth-weft of Minfk. . 
CHOTU'SITZ, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 
Czaflaw, where the king of Pruflia obtained a fignal vic¬ 
tory in 1742. 
CHOT'ZEMITS, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 
Cauzim, near the Elbe. The Auftrians obtained a vic¬ 
tory here over the king of Pruflia, in 1757. 
CHOT'ZEN, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 
Chrudim : three miles north-north-eaft of Hohenmaut. 
CHOU-LOU, a town of China, of the third rank, in 
the province of Pe-tche-li: twelve miles fouth-weft of 
Ching. 
CHOU-TCHUEN, a town of Alia, in Corea: thirty 
miles fouth of Haimen. 
CHOU'ANG-LEOU, a town of China, of the third 
rank in the province of Se-tchuen : ten miles fouth-weft 
of Tching-tong. 
CHOU'ANGTAL, a town of Tartary, in the country 
of Hami: nine miles north-north-weft of Tchontori. 
CHOUAN'NA-MANDARU', f See Bauhinia. 
CHOU'ANS, a people of la Vendee, in France, the 
cafual offspring of a renegado blackfmith of the name of 
Chouan ; who, with a large family, retired to the wilds of 
la Vendee, where forages they multiplied amonglf them- 
felves living by plunder, theft, and every fpeefes of law- 
lefs depredation; retreating with equal celerity and ad- 
drefs into the ftrong holds and faftneffes of the woods, or 
into caves and fiffures of the rocks on the fea fhore. Thus 
they bade defiance to th,e civil officers, and eluded every 
attempt to apprehend or diilodge them. They became !o 
numerous, that not being able to fubfift by plunder on 
fhore, they became rovers on the leas, and formed a con- 
fiderable part of the French fmugglers. In this fituation, 
they were found by Charette, the celebrated leader of 
the royalifts in France, who perfuaded them to make 
atonement 
