Does Section 1268.710 of the California Constitution allow a defendant in an eminent domain action to recover costs incurred in defending the action?

Furthermore, by comparison, in an eminent domain action that is similar to an inverse condemnation action, a property owner also has a statutory right to recover costs incurred in defending the action. Section 1268.710 provides: "The defendant[s] shall be allowed their costs . . . ." Before section 1268.710 was enacted in 1975, its predecessor statute, former section 1255, similarly provided for awards of costs to eminent domain defendants.¹⁷ People v. Bowman (1959) 173 Cal.App.2d 416, 418 rejected the argument that former section 1255 allowed awards of costs other than ordinary costs: