§ 2152. Penalty for taxing or taking illegal costs or fees
A clerk of a court who, in taxing costs, knowingly includes a greater sum than is provided for by law, or a person practicing before a court who knowingly makes up, takes, or receives a greater sum in costs than is provided for by law, or a person who knowingly receives greater fees than the law provides, shall pay to the person aggrieved 10 times such excess, to be recovered with costs in an action of tort on this statute.
Structure Vermont Statutes
§ 2131. Costs in Supreme Court
§ 2136. Costs in Supreme and Superior Courts when nominal damages are recovered
§ 2137. Costs exceeding damages
§ 2139. Tender of confession of judgment
§ 2142. Apportioning costs in case of several issues or claims
§ 2143. Actions which might have been joined
§ 2144. Two judgments at one term; motion to chancer or redeem
§ 2145. Action on receipt for property levied upon
§ 2146. Account which might have been adjusted in former action
§ 2147. Action on judgment upon which execution might have issued
§ 2148. Consolidation of actions against directors
§ 2150. Actions on negotiable paper or nonnegotiable choses in action