512

(a) Every officer, or other persons required to do or perform any act or service for any party to any action or proceeding, except a witness, shall be entitled to demand and receive from the party the compensation which the law allows therefor in advance; but a party to any action or proceeding in any court may, at his option, pay the fees of the officers thereof in advance or give the officers an undertaking with sufficient sureties therefor.\n(b) The fees secured to any officer of the court, by any party to the judgment may be collected by an execution against the property of the party and that of his sureties in the undertaking therefor. The officers' execution may issue in the name of the clerk as plaintiff in the writ and for the benefit of all officers of the court to whom fees are so due and secured whenever an execution might issue to enforce the judgment at the instance of the prevailing party therein.