Decision Makers Guide - DMG42030

Chose in action

The decision maker should note the following when valuing a chose in action.
n) 1) Chose in action means `a thing that can be sued for` and is an actual capital resource.
2) It exists where there is an entitlement to receive a sum of capital at a future date, for example


  • a debt or
  • an outstanding application for compensation or
  • an interest in an unadministered estate.

3) If the payment, or repayment, of the capital sum is not made in the agreed way or time, there is a right to sue.
4) The right to receive the resource, and the right to sue, can be sold to another party.
5) The resource's market value depends on a number of other things including the chances of obtaining possession of the amount at the earliest date.





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