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title: "28 U.S.C. § 1918"
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title_number: 28
title_name: "JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE"
chapter_number: "123"
chapter_name: "FEES AND COSTS"
section: "1918"
citation: "28 U.S.C. § 1918"
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# 28 U.S.C. § 1918 - District courts; fines, forfeitures and criminal proceedings

## Text

(a) Costs shall be included in any judgment, order, or decree rendered against any person for the violation of an Act of Congress in which a civil fine or forfeiture of property is provided for.

(b) Whenever any conviction for any offense not capital is obtained in a district court, the court may order that the defendant pay the costs of prosecution.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 955.)

## Notes

Historical and Revision NotesBased on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 822 (R.S. § 974). Changes were made in phraseology.