§ 16-68-501. Advance payment of fees — Recovery as costs — Unpaid fees — Endorsement on execution
If any party to a suit pays any fees allowed by this act before final judgment and the judgment is thereafter rendered in his or her favor and costs adjudged to him or her, the amount so paid shall be taxed and endorsed on the execution and levied and collected by virtue thereof for the […]
§ 16-68-502. Fees of officers endorsed on execution — Fee book
(a) The clerks of the several courts shall endorse on every execution which they shall issue the fees due to each officer and any other person. (b) The clerks, at the time of issuing an execution or fee bill or of recovering any fees due to them by any party or other person, shall enter […]
§ 16-68-503. Fee bills of officers and witnesses
(a) All officers and witnesses entitled to fees by the law for services rendered in any suit, matter, or controversy pending in any court of record may make out fee bills for the services at the end of each term of the court wherein the suit, matter, or controversy is pending, charging the party at […]
§ 16-68-504. Collection of fee bill
When any fee bill shall come to the hands of any sheriff or other officer to be collected, and the person against whom the fee bill is issued refuses or fails to pay the amount of the fee bill within twenty (20) days after the fee bill shall be presented, the sheriff or other officer […]
§ 16-68-505. Failure of sheriff to collect — Judgment against sheriff
If any sheriff neglects or refuses to levy and collect the fees and pay over the money, when collected, to the person entitled thereto, the court shall upon motion enter up judgment for the amount of the fee bill against him or her and cause execution to issue thereon.
§ 16-68-506. Pro rata division of fees when entire costs not collected
In case the clerk, or, if the costs in any action are collected on execution by the sheriff, then the sheriff, is unable to collect the entire amount of costs due, the clerk or sheriff shall not first retain from the amount the fees due himself or herself, but shall account for and pay the […]
§ 16-68-306. Liability of attorney when bond not given
When process is issued in an action by the direction of an attorney for a plaintiff who is required by § 16-68-301 to give security for costs, but who has failed to do so, the attorney shall be liable as surety for the costs of the action until a bond is given. The attorney’s liability […]
§ 16-68-401. Actions of trespass
In all actions of trespass, if any damages are found for the plaintiff upon the trial of the issue or inquiry of damages, he or she shall recover his or her costs.
§ 16-68-402. Recovery below court’s jurisdiction
In all actions other than trespass which may be prosecuted in any court, the subject matter of which shall be cognizable before the court, but the damages recovered shall be below the jurisdiction of the court, the plaintiff shall recover his costs.
§ 16-68-403. Tender of full payment by defendant — Costs
In all actions where tender is made and full payment offered, by discount or otherwise, in such specie as the party by contract or agreement ought to take, and the party to whom the tender is made refuses it and afterwards sues for the debt or goods so tendered, the plaintiff shall not recover costs […]