chose in action
C2CEFR level
96/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
An intangible personal property right enforceable only by legal proceedings, not by taking possession.
A debt is a chose in action, which is why they assigned the receivable rather than handing anything over.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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