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Gloucester, Statute of (6 Edw. 1, c. 1), A.D. 1278, by which (among other things) a plaintiff recovering damages was first given a right to costs. Impliedly superseded by R.S.C., Ord. LXV., and expressly repealed by the Civil Procedure Acts Repeal Act, 1879 (42 & 43 Vict. c. 79), as to costs in the Supreme Court. See Garnett v. Bradley, (1878) 3 App Cas 944.