§ 20-12-142. Construction as Remedial

The law of costs shall be construed remedially and not as the penal law.

Code 1858, § 3219 (deriv. Acts 1801, ch. 6, § 65); Shan., § 4961; Code 1932, § 9114; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 20-1644.