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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>55762</law_id><section_number>17.1-616</section_number><catch_line>Restriction of costs for witnesses generally; when entry for witness not allowed</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>19.2-329</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="17.1">Courts of Record</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="6">Costs Generally</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The <span class="dictionary">court</span> may restrict the taxation in the costs for witnesses to so many as may be deemed just. No entry for a <span class="dictionary">witness</span> shall be made against a <span class="dictionary">party</span> recovering costs, after execution has issued for such <span class="dictionary">party</span>. In no case shall there be an entry of a <span class="dictionary">witness</span> for attendance at a term, after sixty days from the end of such term.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 14-191; 1964, c. 386, &#xA7; 14.1-194; 1998, c. 872.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
