Costs incurred in the course and in connection with civil proceedings in Croatian law

Abstract

The paper defines the general notion of the costs of civil proceedings, and their components - the costs incurred during the civil proceedings and the costs incurred in connection with those proceedings. This will be done from the aspect of Croatian law, but, also of Serbian law, considering the similarity of the normative basis of the Croatian and Serbian Law on Civil Procedure. In addition, the status of pre-litigation costs whose compensation is obtained in litigation as compensation for the costs of that procedure and the status of such costs that are obtained in litigation as a part of the main or secondary claim will be analyzed.