Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 12-21-144 (2026)
Taxation of Costs for Taking of Depositions.
✓ official Alabama Legislature (ALISON) text, current July 2026
The costs of any deposition introduced, in whole or in part, into evidence at the trial by the party taking it shall be taxed as costs in the case upon the certificate of the person before whom the deposition was taken; the costs of depositions in other cases shall be taxed as costs in the case only if the court so directs.
(Code 1896, §738; Code 1907, §3154; Code 1923, §6591; Code 1940, T. 7, §298.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 5
cases, 2009–2017 · leading case: Nationwide Mut. Fire Ins. Co. v. Austin, 34 So. 3d 1238 (Ala. 2009).
Nationwide Mut. Fire Ins. Co. v. Austin, 34 So. 3d 1238 (Ala. 2009). “Code 1975, [4] the taxation as costs of the amounts paid to a court-reporting service for transcripts and videotapes of two depositions of treating physicians that the Austins had offered as evidence during the trial.”
Soutullo v. Mobile Cnty., 58 So. 3d 733 (Ala. 2010). “Meanwhile, on September 22, 2009, the County filed a “motion to tax costs,” seeking, pursuant to Ala.Code 1975, § 12-21-144, and Rule 54(d), Ala.”
Thomas v. Heard, 256 So. 3d 644 (Ala. 2017). “" It is well established that, "under Ala. Code 1975, § 12-21-144, 7 as interpreted by our Supreme Court in Ex parte Strickland , 401 So.”
Calhoun Cnty. Dep't of Human Resources v. Frye, 74 So. 3d 958 (Ala. Civ. App. 2011). “The fees awarded to Frye, however, in case numbers 2100403 and 2100404 represented compensation for the time Frye had spent working on the matters to which he had been appointed.”
Good Hope Contracting Co. v. McCall, 187 So. 3d 1128 (Ala. Civ. App. 2015). “any way, either with Genex or Mr. McCall. The Court finds that to be an appalling lack of interest in the appropriate care of Mr.”
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