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Carry costs

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

A verdict la said to carry costs when the party for whom the verdict is given becomes entitled to the payment of his costs as incident to such verdict,--Carry on business. To prosecate or pursue a particular avocation or form of business as a continuous and permanent occupation and substantial employment A single act or business transaction is not sufficient, but the systematic and habitual repetition of the same act may be.

Dry Goods Co. v. Lester, 60 Ark. 120, 29 S. W. 34, 27 L. R. A. 505, 46 Am. St. Rep. 162; State v. Tolman, 106 La. 662, 31 South. 32O; Holmes v. Holmes, 40 Co.nn. 120; Railroad Co., v. Attalia, 118 Ala. 362, 24 South. 450; Territory v. Harris, 8 Mont. 140, 19 Pac. 286; Sangster v. Kay, 5 Exch. 386; Lawson v. State, 55 Ala. ll8; Abel v. State, 90 Ala. 633, 8 South. 760; State v. Shipley, 98 Md. 657, 57 Atl. 12,