§12-19-43. When fees allowed for services in proceedings before probate judges due.

Except as otherwise provided by local act or general act with local application, fees allowed by law for services in connection with proceedings before probate judges shall be due only at the termination of the suit, except that fees for transcripts of papers filed in the case, other than copies of cost or fee bills, to which parties are entitled as of course, shall be due when the service is performed, and no fee, except for final record, shall be demanded or received in any case unless the service has been performed.

(Code 1852, §§3051, 3057; Code 1867, §§3522, 3528; Code 1876, §§5005, 5011; Code 1886, §3668; Code 1896, §1356; Code 1907, §3696; Code 1923, §7258; Code 1940, T. 11, §4; Acts 1975, No. 1205, p. 2384, §16-138.)