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2010 Tennessee Code
Title 20 - Civil Procedure
Chapter 12 - Costs
20-12-142 - Construction as remedial.
20-12-142. Construction as remedial.
The law of costs shall be construed remedially and not as the penal law.
[Code 1858, § 3219 (deriv. Acts 1801, ch. 6, § 65); Shan., § 4961; Code 1932, § 9114; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 20-1644.]
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