Settlement offers conditioned on deeds containing terms imposing obligations on or requiring releases of third parties who are strangers to the litigation may not be treated as genuine offers of compromise for costs purposes, and a wholly successful party's failure to seek separate determination of a dispositive issue may be weighed against it in costs, but only if the unsuccessful party's equal failure to do so is also taken into account.
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