(a) A natural person who is financially unable to pay the fees or costs attendant to the commencement, prosecution or defense of any civil action or proceeding, or an appeal therein, is permitted to proceed without prepayment in any court of this state, after filing with the court an affidavit that he or she is […]
When a suit is in the name of one person for the benefit of any other, if there be a judgment for the defendant's costs, it shall be against such other.
The laws of costs shall not be interpreted as penal laws; nor shall anything in this article take away or abridge the discretion of a court of equity over the subject of costs, except that in every case in an appellate court costs shall be recovered in such court by the party substantially prevailing.
In any instance where a case, an appeal, writ of error or supersedeas shall be dismissed for want of jurisdiction, the court shall render judgment against the party who improperly invoked the jurisdiction of the court for all costs, whether accruing in the trial court or in any appellate court, which result from such wrongful […]
The clerk of a court wherein a party recovers costs shall tax the same.
He shall include in the costs to the prevailing party: (a) In any civil action, $10; (b) In civil actions in any court of limited jurisdiction, the same fees as are allowed in a circuit court for like actions.
The clerk shall tax in the costs all fees of officers, or other persons properly acting in lieu of officers, which the said party appears to be chargeable with, in the case wherein the recovery is, except that where, in any court on the same side, more than one copy of anything is obtained or […]
The court may restrict the taxation in the costs for witnesses to so many as may be deemed just. No entry for a witness shall be made against a party recovering costs after execution has issued for such party; and in no case shall there be an entry of a witness for attendance at a […]
The clerk shall include in the costs, for fees of the prosecuting attorney, the following: (a) In cases of misdemeanor, or an action upon a bond for a violation of the license laws, $15, of which $5 of that amount shall be deposited in the courthouse facilities improvement fund created by section six, article twenty-six, […]
In a case wherein there is judgment or decree on behalf of the state for costs, there shall be taxed in the costs the charge actually incurred to give any notice, although it be more than 50¢ and mileage, and the fees of attorneys and other officers for services, and allowances for attendance, as if […]
The clerk or justice shall include in the costs of all actions, suits or proceedings, and the party entitled to recover costs may recover as part thereof, such sum as may have been paid by such party to a company, authorized under the laws of this state so to do, for executing or guaranteeing any […]
On motion of an obligor in such bond, after reasonable notice to the plaintiff, his attorney or agent, the court may order a new bond to be given, with sufficient security, conforming to all the requirements of the preceding section, in a penalty equal to the penalty of the former bond. If the bond required […]
Upon any motion (other than for a judgment for money), or upon any interlocutory order or proceeding, the court may give or refuse costs, at its discretion, unless it be otherwise provided. It may, when a demurrer is sustained to a plea in abatement, give judgment for the plaintiff for his full costs to the […]
New trials may be granted upon the payment of costs, or with the costs to abide the event of the suit, as to the court may seem right. If the party who is to pay the costs of the former trial fail to pay the same at or before the next term after the new […]
In any personal action not on contract, which might be brought and prosecuted to judgment in a justice's court, if a verdict be found for the plaintiff, on an issue or otherwise, for less damages than $50, he shall not recover, in respect to such verdict, any costs, unless the court enter of record that […]
In any personal action on contract instituted in a court of record, wherein it is ascertained that not more is due the plaintiff than $50, exclusive of interest, judgment shall be given for the defendant, unless the court enter of record that the matter in controversy was of greater value than fifty dollars, exclusive of […]
Except where it is otherwise provided, the party for whom final judgment is given in any action, or in a motion for judgment for money, whether he be plaintiff or defendant, shall recover his costs against the opposite party; and when the action is against two or more, and there is judgment for or discontinuance […]
For replacing the original papers in any cause, or the record in an appellate court, or supplying papers lost in cases decided, the costs and expenses shall be ascertained under the direction of the court, and adjudged against any party or parties in the cause, or divided among them as the court may, in its […]
