Double Costs
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In practice
The ordinary single costs of suit, and one-half of that amount in addition, 2 Tidd, Pr. 987. “Double” is not used here in its ordinary sense of “twice” the amount. These costs are now abolished in England by St. 5 & 6 Vict. c.
97. Wharton.