Excerpt from A Handbook of the Taxation of Costs as of Right in the State of New York: With Forms for Various Bills of Costs Very often attorneys deprive their clients and them selves oi substantial sums of money as costs of an action or proceedings to which they are justly entitled. There fore a short and concise text on the code provisions and cases together with decisions relating to them, should be of great value and assistance in taxing costs. In the following pages it is not intended to treat the subject of costs in general, but only the taxation thereof as of right, as it comes up before the taxing officer upon the entry of judgment or otherwise. The treatment of the subject-matter is such as to be of practical value to the attorney. Cases are used to illustrate the various rules and statutes governing the taxation of costs. The text employed, therefore, is in most instances a verbatim statement of the law as enunciated by the court rendering the decision, or an excerpt of the official headnote of the case. It is for that reason authoritative, and attorneys will find it unnecessary to refer to the books where the cases are reported. Costs in law actions allowed to litigants are statutory, and these statutes are set forth in connection with the decisions interpreting them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.