Costs in courts

(1) The awarding of costs shall be in the discretion of the magistrate who shall have power to award and apportion them in any manner he thinks fit. (2) The attorney for either party shall not be entitled to any costs where the sum involved in the action does not exceed ten dollars. (3) Where an action, counterclaim or matter is ordered to be transferred, (a) from the Supreme Court to a district court; or (b) from a district court to the Supreme Court; or (c) from one district court to another district the costs of the whole proceedings both before and after the transfer shall, subject to any order made by the court which ordered the transfer, be in the discretion of the court to which the proceedings are transferred, and that court shall have power 19 to make orders with respect thereto and as to the scales under which the costs of the several parts of the proceedings are to be taxed, and the costs of the whole proceedings shall be taxed in that court.\ (4) Execution may issue for the recovery of a party’s fees and costs in like manner as for the amount of any judgment. (5) The court shall have power to refuse costs in whole or in part to either party. (6) Any party to an action may apply by summons to a judge of the Supreme Court in chambers for a review of the taxation by the magistrate of any bill of costs in such action.