§ 6-18. When costs allowed as of course to plaintiff. - North Carolina Statutes

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§ 6‑18.  When costsallowed as of course to plaintiff.

Costs shall be allowed ofcourse to the plaintiff, upon a recovery, in the following cases:

(1)        In an action for therecovery of real property, or when a claim of title to real property arises onthe pleadings, or is certified by the court to have come in question at thetrial.

(2)        In an action torecover the possession of personal property.

(3)        In an action forassault, battery, false imprisonment, libel, slander, malicious prosecution,criminal conversation or seduction, if the plaintiff recovers less than fiftydollars ($50.00) damages, he shall recover no more costs than damages.

(4)        When several actionsare brought on one bond, recognizance, promissory note, bill of exchange orinstrument in writing, or in any other case, for the same cause of actionagainst several parties who might have been joined as defendants in the sameaction, no costs other than disbursements shall be allowed to the plaintiff inmore than one of such actions, which shall be at his election, provided theparty or parties proceeded against in such other action or actions were withinthe State and not secreted at the commencement of the previous action oractions.

(5)        In an action broughtunder Article 1 of Chapter 19A. (R.C., c. 31, s. 78; 1874‑5,c. 119; Code, s. 525; Rev., s. 1264; C.S., s. 1241; 1971, c. 269, s. 6; 1979,c. 808, s. 5.)