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2009 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 453 COSTS
453.040 Responsibility for payment.
Download pdfnot against others, he shall recover his costs from the former, and the latter
shall recover their costs from the plaintiff. (b) Successful defendants who are necessary nominal parties shall not recover their costs, but each party shall be decreed to pay his own costs. Successful
defendants who are not necessary parties shall recover their costs. (2) In actions between parceners, tenants in common or joint tenants, and in actions for settling the distribution and division of deceased persons' estates, to settle
partnerships and to settle or enforce trusts, the court shall exercise a judicial
discretion in regard to costs. Effective: July 15, 1982
History: Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 118, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1982. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 889.
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