| 单词 | dives costs |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdives costs dives costs n. Law costs on the higher scale.Under an old practice of the Court of Chancery, a plaintiff who sued in forma pauperis (and who therefore if he failed in his action could not be condemned to pay the defendant's costs) was sometimes, in case the action was successful, allowed to recover from the defendant only ‘pauper costs’, which were costs taxed on a low scale; while in other cases he was allowed to recover what by way of contrast were called ‘dives costs’, taxed on the ordinary scale.extracted from Divesn.< as lemmas |
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