Counsel fee in proceeding on bond or undertaking

1. Law
2. District of Columbia Code
3. Judgments and Executions; Fees and Costs. [Enacted title]
4. Judgments and Decrees
5. Counsel fee in proceeding on bond or undertaking

In a proceeding in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia or the Superior Court of the District of Columbia to recover damages upon a bond or undertaking given to obtain a restraining order or preliminary or pendente lite injunction, the Court, in assessing damages to be recovered thereunder, may include such reasonable counsel fees as the party damaged by the restraining order or injunction may have incurred in obtaining a dissolution thereof.

(Aug. 30, 1964, 78 Stat. 678, Pub. L. 88-509, § 3(b)(1); July 29, 1970, 84 Stat. 553, Pub. L. 91-358, title I, § 144(3).)

Prior Codifications

1981 Ed., § 15-111.

1973 Ed., § 15-111.

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