597: Goodyear v. Sawyer (C. ©.) 17 Fed. 6—Treble costs. A rate of costs given in~certain actions, consisting, according to its technical import, of the common costs, half of these, and half of the latter. 2 Tidd, Pr. 988. The word “treble,” in this application, is not understood in its literal sense of thrice the amount of single costs, but signifies merely the addition together of the three sums fixed as above. Id. Treble costs have been abolished in

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25, note; 2 Archb. Pr. 188 But in American law, the term includes actions brought by informers or other private persons, as well as those instituted by governments or public officers. In a broad sense, the term has been made to include all actions in which there may be a recovery of exemplary or vindictive damages, as suits for libel and slander, or in which special, double, or treble damages are given by pneate, such - reg age oe cate money paid ag usury or lost in gaming.