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Taxation of costs in ejectment.
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92. [1]
It shall and may be lawful for the assistant barrister, or recorder, and they are hereby respectively required, in cases of civil bill ejectment, on the request of either party or his attorney, to tax the costs between party and party, and to include the same in the decree or dismiss, as the case may be, and further, on the like request, to tax costs between attorney and client upon any proceedings that shall have been taken, or may hereafter be taken, for the recovery of the possession of lands or tenements under the provisions of this Act; and no clerk of the peace shall have any power to tax the same, and no fee shall be payable for such taxation; and no attorney shall be entitled to recover any sum against any client for or by reason of any proceedings in ejectment under this Act, or any preparation for such proceedings, unless the same shall have been previously taxed in manner herein provided; and it shall and may be lawful for the assistant barrister or recorder, and they are hereby respectively required, to examine upon oath (which oath they are hereby respectively authorized to administer) the attorney seeking to charge such client, as to all matters and things which it may appear to the said assistant barrister or recorder necessary to ascertain for the due taxation of the said costs: Provided always, that no sum shall be allowed to the plaintiff’s attorney for any searches for incumbrances affecting the lands and tenements, unless he shall have received directions in writing from the plaintiff or his land agent authorizing him to make the same.
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