FEES

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  FEES, compensation. Certain perquisites allowed by law to officers concerned 
  in the administration of justice, or in the performance of duties required 
  by law, as a recompense for their labor and trouble. Bac. Ab. h.t.; Latch, 
  18. 
       2. The term fees differs from costs in this, that the former are, as 
  above mentioned, a recompense to the officer for his services, and the 


  latter, an indemnification to the, party for money laid out and expended in 
  his suit. 11 S. & R. 248; 9 Wheat. 262; See 4 Binn. 267. Vide Costs; Color 
  of office; Exaction; Extortion.