Akademik

in·cho·ate /in-'kō-ət, 'iŋ-kō-ˌāt/ adj

1 a: not yet made complete, certain, or specific: not perfected see also inchoate lien at lien

b: not yet transformed into actual use or possession

until an employee has earned his retirement pay...[it] is but an inchoate right — Peterson v. Fire & Police Pension Ass'n, 759 P.2d 720 (1988)

2: of or relating to a crime (as attempt, solicitation, or conspiracy) which consists of acts that are preliminary to another crime and that are in themselves criminal compare choate