North Dakota Century Code Title 28. Judicial Procedure, Civil § 28-26-02. Amount of costs in specific cases

1. To the plaintiff for all proceedings before trial, ten dollars, and for each additional defendant served with process not exceeding ten, one dollar.

2. To the defendant, for all proceedings before trial, five dollars.

3. For every trial of an issue of fact, five dollars.

4. Superseded by N.D.R.App.P., Rule 38.

5. To either party for every term not exceeding five, at which the cause is necessarily on the calendar of the district court and is not tried or is postponed by order of the court, three dollars, and for every term not exceeding five, excluding the term at which the cause is argued in the supreme court, five dollars. Term fees are not taxable as costs when a cause, properly on the calendar, is not reached for trial during the term, nor in case a continuance is had upon the application of, or stipulation with, the party in whose favor costs are to be taxed.