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Taxing costs
Taxing costsPractice. The act by which it is ascertained to what costs a party is entitled. RELATED TERMS-------------------------------------- Practice The form, manner and order of conducting and carrying on suits or prosecutions in the courts through their various stages, according, to the principles of law, and the rules laid down by the respective courts. Costs This is a term often used in judgments as in "the defendant will pay costs." When a person is condemned to "costs" it means that he has to pay all the court costs such as the fees for bringing the action, witness fees and other fees paid out by the other side in bringing the action to justice. A court can also condemn a losing party to "special costs" but this is considered punitive as it would include the other side's lawyer bill. The rule in most places is that "costs follows the event" which means that the loser pays. In most states, the court has the final say on costs and may decide not to make an order on costs. Party Practice, contracts. When applied to practice, by party is understood either the plaintiff or defendant. In contracts, a party is one or more persons who engage to perform or receive the performance of some agreement. SIMILAR TERMS-------------------------------------- PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS-------------------------------------- Tariff Customs, duties, toll. or tribute payable upon merchandise to the general government is called tariff; the rate of customs, also bears this name and the list of articles liable to duties is also called the tariff. Tavern A place of entertainment; a house kept up for the accommodation of strangers. Tax court of the united states A judicial body which hears cases concerning federal tax laws. Tax intercept The process by which a child support judgment debtor's federal and state income tax refunds are diverted to pay a support arrearage. Taxable income The income against which tax rates are applied to compute tax paid; gross income of businesses or adjusted gross income of individuals less deductions and exemptions. Taxing costs Teamster One who drives horses in a wagon for the purpose of carrying goods for hire he is liable as a common carrier. Technical That which properly belongs to an art. Teinds Scotch Law. That liquid proportion of the rents or goods of the people, which is due to churchmen for performing divine service, or exercising the other spiritual functions proper to their several offices Teleological - substantive approach Envisaging a new ius gentium, Friedrich K. Juenger refuted previous conflict of law theories by creating a multistate justice theory of conflicts of law that is founded upon a result-oriented quest for rules that will foster "stability and fairness." Juenger called this result-oriented reasoning quest as teleological analysis, which like functional analysis (supra), is criticized for being uncertain, arbitrary, homeward-looking, and for being a disguised search for equity, rather than a principled application of law. Teller An officer in a bank or other institution. He is said to take that name from tallier, or one who kept a tally, because it is his duty to keep the accounts between the bank or other institution and its customers, or to make their accounts tally. In another sense teller signifies a person appointed to receive votes. In England the name of teller is given to certain officers in the exchequer. We thank you for using the Juridical Dictionary to search for Taxing costs. If you have a better definition for Taxing costs than the one presented here, please let us know by making use of the suggest a term option. This definition of Taxing costs may be disputed by other professionals. Our attempt is to provide easy definitions on Taxing costs and any other medical topic for the public at large.
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