S.C. Code Ann. § 15-61-50 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 61 / Article 1 / Section 15-61-50
SECTION 15-61-50. Jurisdiction to partition in kind or by sale.
Status: in_force

The court of common pleas has jurisdiction in all cases of real and personal estates held in joint tenancy or in common to make partition in kind or by allotment to one or more of the parties upon their accounting to the other parties in interest for their respective shares or, in case partition in kind or by allotment cannot be fairly and impartially made and without injury to any of the parties in interest, by the sale of the property and the division of the proceeds according to the rights of the parties.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-67-630 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 67 / Article 7 / Section 15-67-630
SECTION 15-67-630. Fee of magistrate and sheriff or constable.
Status: in_force

The magistrate shall be entitled to demand and receive from the person applying for such warrant a fee of two dollars before issuing the warrant, and the sheriff or constable shall in like manner be entitled to demand and receive from such person a fee of two dollars and mileage before executing such warrant. Editor's Note Insofar as this section refers to magistrates or constables, it is superseded by SECTION 8-21-1080.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-61-20 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 61 / Article 1 / Section 15-61-20
SECTION 15-61-20. Only parties to proceeding are affected by partition.
Status: in_force

No severance or partition shall be prejudicial or hurtful to any person or persons, their heirs or successors, other than such as are parties unto the partition, their executors and assigns.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-61-11 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 61 / Article 1 / Section 15-61-11
SECTION 15-61-11. Waiver of partition of land which is site of electric generating plant.
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding the provisions of SECTION 15-61-10, the right to compel judicial partition of lands may be waived by tenants-in-common owning land upon which is to be constructed or has been constructed an electric generating plant producing electric energy for sale or distribution within or without this State, provided the effective period of such waiver does not extend beyond the operating life of the generating plant. If notice is given by the recording of a deed or instrument of conveyance creating a tenancy-in-common and containing an expression of agreement to waive the right of judicial partition, then such agreement shall run with the land and shall be binding upon the heirs, successors and assigns of any tenant-in-common so bound. The power and right to enter into agreements to waive the right of judicial partition authorized by this section shall be in addition to any such powers and rights already authorized by the laws of South Carolina.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-1-250 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 1 / Section 15-1-250
SECTION 15-1-250. Cash deposit in lieu of bond.
Status: in_force

Whenever it shall be necessary for a party to any action or proceeding to give a bond or an undertaking with surety or sureties he may, in lieu thereof, deposit with the officer or into the court, as the case may require, money to the amount for which the bond or undertaking is to be given. The court in which such action or proceeding is pending may direct what disposition shall be made of such money, pending the action or proceeding. In any case in which, by this section, the money is to be deposited with an officer, a judge of the court, in term or at chambers, upon the application of either party, may, before such deposit is made, order it to be deposited in court instead of with such officer and a deposit made pursuant to such order shall be of the same effect as if made with such officer.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-3-590 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 3 / Article 5 / Section 15-3-590
SECTION 15-3-590. Actions against motor carriers for overcharges.
Status: in_force

(1) Actions at law for the recovery of overcharges against motor carriers subject to Chapter 23 of Title 58 shall be commenced within two years from the time the cause of action accrues and not thereafter, subject to the provisions of subsection (2) of this section; provided, that if a claim for the overcharge has been presented in writing to the carrier within the two-year period of limitation, the period shall be extended to include six months from the time notice in writing was given by the carrier to the claimant of disallowance of the claim, or any part or parts thereof. (2) The cause of action against a motor carrier for overcharges shall for the purpose of this section be deemed to accrue at the time the charges are paid to the carrier. (3) The term "overcharges" as used in this section shall be deemed to mean charges for transportation services in excess of those applicable thereto under the tariffs lawfully on file with the Public Service Commission.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-51-40 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 51 / Article 1 / Section 15-51-40
SECTION 15-51-40. Damages; amount and to whom payable.
Status: in_force

In every such action the jury may give damages, including exemplary damages when the wrongful act, neglect, or default was the result of recklessness, wilfulness, or malice, as they may think proportioned to the injury resulting from the death to the parties respectively for whom and for whose benefit such action shall be brought. The amount so recovered shall be divided among the before-mentioned parties in those shares as they would have been entitled to if the deceased had died intestate and the amount recovered had been personal assets of his or her estate. However, upon motion by either parent or any other party of potential interest based upon the decedent having died intestate, the probate court may deny or limit either or both parent's entitlement for a share of the proceeds if the court determines, by a preponderance of the evidence, that the parent or parents failed to reasonably provide support for the decedent as defined in Section 63-5-20 and did not otherwise provide for the needs of the decedent during his or her minority. Code Commissioner's Note At the direction of the Code Commissioner, the reference to SECTION 20-7-40 was changed to SECTION 63-5-20 in accordance with 2008 Act No. 361 (Children's Code).
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-37-120 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 37 / Section 15-37-120
SECTION 15-37-120. Costs for mileage.
Status: in_force

No constructive mileage shall be allowed, but in all cases costs for mileage shall only be taxed for the number of miles actually traveled.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-78-30 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 78 / Section 15-78-30
SECTION 15-78-30. Definitions.
Status: in_force

(a) "Agency" means the individual office, agency, authority, department, commission, board, division, instrumentality, or institution, including a state-supported governmental health care facility, school, college, university, or technical college, which employs the employee whose act or omission gives rise to a claim under this chapter. (b) "Claim" means any written demand against the State of South Carolina or a political subdivision for money only, on account of loss, caused by the tort of any employee of the State or a political subdivision while acting within the scope of his official duty. (c) Prior to January 1, 1989, "employee" means any officer, employee, or agent of the State or its political subdivisions, including elected or appointed officials, law enforcement officers, and persons acting on behalf or in service of a governmental entity in the scope of official duty, whether with or without compensation, but the term does not include an independent contractor doing business with the State or a political subdivision of the State. Custody of prisoners by the State or any of its political subdivisions does not in and of itself create an employer and employee relationship between the State and the prisoner. Provided, the provisions of this section in no way limit or modify the liability of a licensed physician or dentist, acting within the scope of his profession. On or after January 1, 1989, "employee" means any officer, employee, agent, or court appointed representative of the State or its political subdivisions, including elected or appointed officials, law enforcement officers, and persons acting on behalf or in service of a governmental entity in the scope of official duty including, but not limited to, technical experts whether with or without compensation, but the term does not include an independent contractor doing business with the State or a political subdivision of the State. Custody of prisoners by the State or any of its political subdivisions does not in and of itself create an employer and employee relationship between the State and the prisoner. Provided, the provisions of this section in no way limit or modify the liability of a licensed physician or dentist, acting within the scope of his profession, with respect to any action or claim which involved services for which the physician or dentist was paid, should have been paid, or expected to be paid at the time of the rendering of the services from a source other than the salary appropriated by the governmental entity or fees received from any practice plan authorized by the employer whether or not the practice plan is incorporated and registered with the Secretary of State. (d) "Governmental entity" means the State and its political subdivisions. (e) "State" means the State of South Carolina and any of its offices, agencies, authorities, departments, commissions, boards, divisions, instrumentalities, including the South Carolina Protection and Advocacy System for the Handicapped, Inc., and institutions, including state-supported governmental health care facilities, schools, colleges, universities, and technical colleges. (f) "Loss" means bodily injury, disease, death, or damage to tangible property, including lost wages and economic loss to the person who suffered the injury, disease, or death, pain and suffering, mental anguish, and any other element of actual damages recoverable in actions for negligence, but does not include the intentional infliction of emotional harm. (g) "Occurrence" means an unfolding sequence of events which proximately flow from a single act of negligence. (h) "Political subdivision" means the counties, municipalities, school districts, a regional transportation authority established pursuant to Chapter 25 of Title 58, and an operator as defined in item (8) of SECTION 58-25-20 which provides public transportation on behalf of a regional transportation authority, and special purpose districts of the State and any agency, governmental health care facility, department, or subdivision thereof. (i) "Scope of official duty" or "scope of state employment" means (1) acting in and about the official business of a governmental entity and (2) performing official duties. (j) "Governmental health care facility" means one which is operated by the State or a political subdivision through a governing board appointed or elected pursuant to statute or ordinance and which is tax-exempt under state and federal laws as a governmental entity and from which no part of its net income from its operation accrues to the benefit of any individual or nongovernmental entity. Health care facility includes any facility as defined in Title 44, S. C. Code Ann. for the provision of mental or physical care to individuals, whether or not it is required to be licensed under those provisions. Effect of Amendment The 2008 amendment, in subsection (c), in the first sentence of the second undesignated paragraph added ", or court appointed representative" and made nonsubstantive changes throughout.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-67-10 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 67 / Article 1 / Section 15-67-10
SECTION 15-67-10. Persons who may bring action to determine adverse claim.
Status: in_force

Any person in possession of real property, by himself or his tenant, or any person having or claiming title to vacant or unoccupied real property may bring an action against any person who claims or who may or could claim an estate or interest therein or a lien thereon adverse to him for the purpose of determining such adverse claim and the rights of the parties, respectively.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-75-50 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 75 / Section 15-75-50
SECTION 15-75-50. Use of a facsimile machine to transmit unsolicited advertising material prohibited; exceptions; civil actions.
Status: in_force

(A) No person may use a machine that electronically transmits facsimiles through connection with a telephone network to transmit unsolicited advertising material which offers to sell goods or services except as follows: (1) where a prior or current business relationship exists between the sender and receiver; (2) where the facsimile transmission is sent as a follow-up or response to a sales call, sales lead, or other business or association-related contact. (B) A person aggrieved by a violation of the provisions of subsection (A) may bring a civil action to enjoin further violations and to recover the actual damages sustained by reason of the violation, together with costs and a reasonable attorney's fee, or two hundred dollars, whichever is greater. Editor's Note Section 3 of 1991 Act No. 58, effective May 27, 1991, provides as follows: "The provisions of this act do not apply to persons submitting bids for services or materials to be used in connection with nonresidential construction projects."
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-67-260 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 67 / Article 3 / Section 15-67-260
SECTION 15-67-260. Relation of landlord and tenant as affecting adverse possession.
Status: in_force

Whenever the relation of landlord and tenant shall have existed between any persons the possession of the tenant shall be deemed the possession of the landlord until the expiration of ten years from the termination of the tenancy or, when there has been no written lease, until the expiration of ten years from the time of refusal to pay rent, notwithstanding that such tenant may have acquired another title or may have claimed to hold adversely to his landlord. But such presumptions shall not be made after the periods herein limited.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-75-40 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 75 / Section 15-75-40
SECTION 15-75-40. Definitions.
Status: in_force

(A) As used in this section: (1) "Shoplifting" means an act punishable under Section 16-13-110 and also includes the theft of cash or merchandise by employees of a mercantile establishment; (2) "Store or other retail mercantile establishment" means an establishment as defined in Section 16-13-105(5); (3) "Emancipated minor" means a person over the age of sixteen at the time of the alleged shoplifting and who was no longer a dependent of or in the custody of a parent or legal guardian. (B) In a proceeding brought under this section the burden of proof is by a preponderance of the evidence. (C) An adult or emancipated minor who commits shoplifting against the property of a store or other retail mercantile establishment is civilly liable to the operator of the establishment in an amount consisting of: (1) the retail price of the merchandise if not recovered in merchantable condition up to an amount not to exceed fifteen hundred dollars; plus (2) a penalty not to exceed the greater of three times the retail price of the merchandise or one hundred fifty dollars. In no event may the penalty exceed five hundred dollars. (D) Custodial parents or legal guardians of an unemancipated minor who knew or should have known of the minor's propensity to steal are civilly liable for the minor who commits shoplifting against the property of a store or other retail mercantile establishment to the operator of the establishment in an amount consisting of: (1) the retail price of the merchandise if not recovered in merchantable condition up to an amount not to exceed fifteen hundred dollars; plus (2) a penalty not to exceed the greater of three times the retail price of the merchandise or one hundred fifty dollars. In no event may the penalty exceed five hundred dollars. (E) A conviction or a plea of guilty for committing shoplifting is not a prerequisite to the bringing of a civil suit, obtaining a judgment, or collecting that judgment under this section. (F) The fact that an operator of a store or other retail mercantile establishment may bring an action against an individual as provided in this section does not limit the right of the merchant to demand, orally or in writing, that a person who is liable for damages and penalties under this section remit the damages and penalties before the commencement of a legal action. (G)(1) A written notice sent by the operator of a store or other mercantile establishment to an individual as provided in subsection (F) must be sent by certified mail and must state substantially as follows: (2) The date of mailing of the notice provided by this subsection is the later of the date of mailing stated in the notice or the date on the certified mail receipt when the notice was delivered to the United States mail. (H) In an action brought under subsection (D) of this section, the court shall consider in the interest of justice mitigating circumstances that bear directly upon the actions of the custodial parent or legal guardian in supervising the unemancipated minor who committed the shoplifting. These mitigating circumstances may include, but are not limited to, whether or not the unemancipated minor had demonstrated a propensity to steal or tendencies toward kleptomania and whether or not the custodial parent or legal guardian had notice or knowledge of the unemancipated minor's propensity to steal or tendencies toward kleptomania. (I) An action for recovery of damages and penalties under this section may be brought in any court of competent jurisdiction. (J) The provisions of this section may not be construed to prohibit or limit any other cause of action which an operator of a store or other retail mercantile establishment may have against a person who unlawfully takes merchandise from the establishment. (K) Testimony or statements of the defendant or unemancipated minor child of the defendant or any evidence derived from an attempt to reach a civil settlement or from a civil proceeding brought under this section is inadmissible in any other court proceeding related to the shoplifting. (L) A store which utilizes the provisions of this section is prohibited from subsequently filing criminal charges against the individual pursuant to Section 16-13-110.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-19-550 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 19 / Article 5 / Section 15-19-550
SECTION 15-19-550. Further proceedings.
Status: in_force

Further proceedings on the part of the sheriff or constable in reference to the appraisement of the personal property attached or the sale of such personal property as may be perishable shall be such as are required by SECTIONS 15-19-270 and 15-19-280. Further proceedings in reference to the disposition of the bond given by the plaintiff in case of judgment for defendant, the discharge of the attachment and return of property or its proceeds to defendant and the undertaking on the defendant's part shall be such as are required by SECTIONS 15-19-300 to 15-19-340 and 15-19-390.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-73-10 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 73 / Section 15-73-10
SECTION 15-73-10. Liability of seller for defective product.
Status: in_force

(1) One who sells any product in a defective condition unreasonably dangerous to the user or consumer or to his property is subject to liability for physical harm caused to the ultimate user or consumer, or to his property, if (a) The seller is engaged in the business of selling such a product, and (b) It is expected to and does reach the user or consumer without substantial change in the condition in which it is sold. (2) The rule stated in subsection (1) shall apply although (a) The seller has exercised all possible care in the preparation and sale of his product, and (b) The user or consumer has not bought the product from or entered into any contractual relation with the seller.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-39-70 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 39 / Article 1 / Section 15-39-70
SECTION 15-39-70. Executions may be taken out by administrators de bonis non.
Status: in_force

When any judgment after a verdict shall be had by or in the name of any executor or administrator, an administrator de bonis non may take out execution upon such judgment.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-38-15 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 38 / Section 15-38-15
SECTION 15-38-15. Liability of defendant responsible for less than fifty per cent of total fault; apportionment of percentages; willful, wanton, or grossly negligent defendant and alcoholic beverage or drug exceptions.
Status: in_force

Section effective until January 1, 2026. See, also, section 15-38-15 effective January 1, 2026. (A) In an action to recover damages resulting from personal injury, wrongful death, or damage to property or to recover damages for economic loss or for noneconomic loss such as mental distress, loss of enjoyment, pain, suffering, loss of reputation, or loss of companionship resulting from tortious conduct, if indivisible damages are determined to be proximately caused by more than one defendant, joint and several liability does not apply to any defendant whose conduct is determined to be less than fifty percent of the total fault for the indivisible damages as compared with the total of: (i) the fault of all the defendants; and (ii) the fault (comparative negligence), if any, of plaintiff. A defendant whose conduct is determined to be less than fifty percent of the total fault shall only be liable for that percentage of the indivisible damages determined by the jury or trier of fact. (B) Apportionment of percentages of fault among defendants is to be determined as specified in subsection (C). (C) The jury, or the court if there is no jury, shall: (1) specify the amount of damages; (2) determine the percentage of fault, if any, of plaintiff and the amount of recoverable damages under applicable rules concerning "comparative negligence"; and (3) upon a motion by at least one defendant, where there is a verdict under items (1) and (2) above for damages against two or more defendants for the same indivisible injury, death, or damage to property, specify in a separate verdict under the procedures described at subitem (b) below the percentage of liability that proximately caused the indivisible injury, death, damage to property, or economic loss from tortious conduct, as determined by item (1) above, that is attributable to each defendant whose actions are a proximate cause of the indivisible injury, death, or damage to property. In determining the percentage attributable to each defendant, any fault of the plaintiff, as determined by item (2) above, will be included so that the total of the percentages of fault attributed to the plaintiff and to the defendants must be one hundred percent. In calculating the percentage of fault attributable to each defendant, inclusion of any percentage of fault of the plaintiff (as determined in item (2) above) shall not reduce the amount of plaintiff's recoverable damages (as determined under item (2) above). (a) For this purpose, the court may determine that two or more persons are to be treated as a single party. Such treatment must be used where two or more defendants acted in concert or where, by reason of agency, employment, or other legal relationship, a defendant is vicariously responsible for the conduct of another defendant. (b) After the initial verdict awarding damages is entered and before the special verdict on percentages of liability is rendered, the parties shall be allowed oral argument, with the length of such argument subject to the discretion of the trial judge, on the determination of the percentage attributable to each defendant. However, no additional evidence shall be allowed. (D) A defendant shall retain the right to assert that another potential tortfeasor, whether or not a party, contributed to the alleged injury or damages and/or may be liable for any or all of the damages alleged by any other party. (E) Notwithstanding the application of this section, setoff from any settlement received from any potential tortfeasor prior to the verdict shall be applied in proportion to each defendant's percentage of liability as determined pursuant to subsection (C). (F) This section does not apply to a defendant whose conduct is determined to be wilful, wanton, reckless, grossly negligent, or intentional or conduct involving the use, sale, or possession of alcohol or the illegal or illicit use, sale, or possession of drugs.Section effective January 1, 2026. See, also, section 15-38-15 effective until January 1, 2026. (A) In an action to recover damages resulting from personal injury, wrongful death, or damage to property or to recover damages for economic loss or for noneconomic loss such as mental distress, loss of enjoyment, pain, suffering, loss of reputation, or loss of companionship resulting from tortious conduct, if indivisible damages are determined to be proximately caused by more than one tortfeasor, joint and several liability does not apply to any defendant whose conduct is determined to be less than fifty percent of the total fault for the indivisible damages as compared with the total of: (i) the fault of all the defendants and tortfeasors; and (ii) the fault (comparative negligence), if any, of plaintiff. A defendant whose conduct is determined to be less than fifty percent of the total fault shall only be liable for that percentage of the indivisible damages determined by the jury or trier of fact. (B) Apportionment of percentages of fault among defendants and tortfeasors is to be determined as specified in subsection (C). (C) The jury, or the court if there is no jury, shall: (1) specify the amount of damages; (2) determine the percentage of fault, if any, of plaintiff under applicable rules concerning "comparative negligence"; and (3) upon a motion by at least one defendant, where there is a verdict under items (1) and (2) above for damages for the same indivisible injury, death, or damage to property, specify in a separate verdict under the procedures described at subitem (b) below the percentage of liability that proximately caused the indivisible injury, death, damage to property, or economic loss from tortious conduct, as determined by item (1) above, that is attributable to each defendant and tortfeasor whose actions are a proximate cause of the indivisible injury, death, or damage to property. In determining the percentage attributable to each defendant and tortfeasor, any fault of the plaintiff, as determined by item (2) above, will be included so that the total of the percentages of fault attributed to the plaintiff and to the defendants and tortfeasors must be one hundred percent. In calculating the percentage of fault attributable to each defendant, inclusion of any percentage of fault of the plaintiff (as determined in item (2) above) shall not reduce the amount of plaintiff's recoverable damages (as determined under item (2) above). (a) For this purpose, the court may determine that two or more persons are to be treated as a single party. Such treatment must be used where two or more defendants acted in concert or where, by reason of agency, employment, or other legal relationship, a defendant is vicariously responsible for the conduct of another defendant. (b) After the initial verdict awarding damages is entered and before the special verdict on percentages of liability is rendered, the parties shall be allowed oral argument, with the length of such argument subject to the discretion of the trial judge, on the determination of the percentage attributable to each defendant and tortfeasor. However, no additional evidence shall be allowed. (D) A defendant shall retain the right to assert that another potential tortfeasor, whether or not a party, contributed to the alleged injury or damages and/or may be liable for any or all of the damages alleged by any other party. (E) Notwithstanding the application of this section, setoff from any settlement received from any potential tortfeasor not placed on the verdict form prior to the verdict shall be applied in proportion to each defendant's percentage of liability as determined pursuant to subsection (C). (F) The provisions of subsection (A) do not apply to a defendant whose conduct is determined to be wilful, wanton, reckless, or intentional or conduct involving the illegal or illicit use, sale, or possession of drugs, and such a defendant shall be jointly and severally liable for all damages described in subsection (A). (G) In order for the trier of fact to allocate fault to a nondefendant tortfeasor for the purpose of apportioning damages, the following requirements apply: (1) the tortfeasor must be disclosed within one hundred eighty days of the commencement of the action or at a later time for good cause shown, and the plaintiff may add the tortfeasor as a party defendant with the amended pleading relating back to the commencement of the action; (2) the defendant bears the burden of proof that the added tortfeasor's breach of duty was a proximate cause of the plaintiff's injuries unless the plaintiff amends his pleadings to add the tortfeasor as a party; (3) if the plaintiff does not add the tortfeasor in a direct action, the plaintiff may challenge the addition of the tortfeasor pursuant to South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 56 and Rule 50. If those motions are denied then the tortfeasor appears on the verdict form; and (4) notwithstanding the time requirement in item (1), a settling tortfeasor, whether or not a party, shall be added to the verdict form unless excluded by subsection (H). (H) A nondefendant tortfeasor shall not be added to the verdict form if: (1) the nondefendant tortfeasor is immune from liability or prohibited from suit under statute or common law or otherwise not subject to suit in this action, not including settled or released tortfeasors who were or could have been parties in the civil action; (2) the nondefendant tortfeasor's conduct is wilful, wanton, reckless, or intentional; (3) the defendant's liability is imputed to or based upon fault of the tortfeasor; (4) the causes of action involve strict liability; (5) the causes of action involve asbestos; or (6) an action is commenced by the State, a state agency, municipality, county, local government, regional public authority, special purpose district, public utility, or any other governmental entity or political subdivision including, but not limited to, claims seeking recovery of public funds, remediation costs, or other damages arising from acts or omissions of third parties that result in harm to public health, safety, infrastructure, or the environment, other than claims involving per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. Editor's Note 2005 Act No. 27, SECTION 11, provides as follows: "If any provision of Section 6 [adding this section] or its application to any person is held invalid, unenforceable, or unconstitutional, this validity, unenforceability, or unconstitutionality shall negate the other provisions or applications of Section 6, and to this end, the provisions of Section 6 are not severable." 2005 Act No. 27, SECTION 16(4), provides as follows: "Section 6 [adding this section] takes effect July 1, 2005, and shall only apply to causes of action arising on or after that date except for causes of actions relating to construction torts which would take effect on July 1, 2005, and apply to improvements to real property that first obtain substantial completion on or after July 1, 2005. For purposes of this section, an improvement to real property obtains substantial completion when a municipality or county issues a certificate of occupancy in the case of new construction, or completes a final inspection in the case of improvements to existing improvements;[.]" 2005 Act No. 32, SECTION 17, provides as follows: "If any provision of Section 16 [amending this section] or its application to any person is held invalid, unenforceable, or unconstitutional, this validity, unenforceability, or unconstitutionality shall negate the other provisions or applications of Section 16, and to this end, the provisions of Section 16 are not severable." 2005 Act No. 32, SECTION 21(A), provides as follows: "Section 16 [amending this section] takes effect July 1, 2005, and shall only apply to causes of action arising on or after that date except for causes of actions relating to construction torts which would take effect on July 1, 2005, and apply to improvements to real property that first obtain substantial completion on or after July 1, 2005. For purposes of this section, an improvement to real property obtains substantial completion when a municipality or county issues a certificate of occupancy in the case of new construction, or completes a final inspection in the case of improvements to existing improvements." 2025 Act No. 42, SECTION 11, provides as follows: "SECTION 11. This act takes effect January 1, 2026, and applies only to causes of action or claims arising or accruing after January 1, 2026, and applies to all policies issued after that date, other than Section 61-4-523 which takes effect upon approval by the Governor." Effect of Amendment The 2005 amendment, in subsection (B)(3), added the last sentence; in subsection (F), added "or the illegal or illicit use, sale, or possession of" preceding "drugs". 2025 Act No. 42, SECTION 1, rewrote the section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-67-730 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 67 / Article 9 / Section 15-67-730
SECTION 15-67-730. Proceedings on affidavit that such person is beyond limits of State.
Status: in_force

Should it appear by affidavit that the person sought is, or lately was, at some certain place beyond the limits of this State, the court may direct the commissioners to make personal search at the place or places named if the person prosecuting such order shall provide the necessary expenses of such search. And upon return of the commissioners, duly made and filed, of their failure to view such person allegedly concealed or absent or other satisfactory proof of death, such person shall be taken to be dead and any lawful claimant of any estate held by or for such person shall be let into possession of it.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-29-90 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 29 / Section 15-29-90
SECTION 15-29-90. Printing accounts shall be rendered under oath.
Status: in_force

All accounts rendered for printing shall be under oath that such accounts are in accordance with the requirements of this chapter.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-43-10 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 43 / Section 15-43-10
SECTION 15-43-10. Use of buildings or places for lewdness and the like declared a nuisance.
Status: in_force

(A) A person who erects, establishes, continues, maintains, uses, owns, occupies, leases, or releases any building or other place used for the purposes of lewdness, assignation, prostitution, repeated acts of unlawful possession or sale of controlled substances, or continuous breach of the peace in this State is guilty of a nuisance; and the building, place, or the ground itself in or upon which the lewdness, assignation, prostitution, repeated acts of unlawful possession or sale of controlled substances, or continuous breach of the peace is conducted, permitted, carried on, continued, or exists and the furniture, fixtures, musical instruments, and movable property used in conducting or maintaining the nuisance also are declared a nuisance and shall be enjoined and abated as provided in this chapter. (B) As used in this section "continuous breach of the peace" means a pattern of repeated acts or conduct which either (1) directly disturbs the public peace or (2) disturbs the public peace by inciting or tending to incite violence. (C) Nothing in this section supplants, alters, or limits a statutory or common law right of a person to bring an action in court or the right of the State to prosecute a person for a violation of a statute or common law.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-35-360 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 35 / Article 3 / Section 15-35-360
SECTION 15-35-360. Judgment by confession; statement in writing and contents thereof.
Status: in_force

Before a judgment by confession shall be entered a statement in writing must be made and signed by the defendant and verified by his oath to the following effect: (1) It must state the amount for which judgment may be entered and authorize the entry of judgment therefor; (2) If it be for the money due or to become due, it must state concisely the facts out of which it arose and must show that the sum confessed therefor is justly due or to become due; and (3) If it be for the purpose of securing the plaintiff against a contingent liability, it must state concisely the facts constituting the liability and must show that the sum confessed therefor does not exceed the liability.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-50-60 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 50 / Section 15-50-60
SECTION 15-50-60. Application for approval of transfer; notice of hearing.
Status: in_force

(A) An application pursuant to this chapter for approval of a transfer of structured settlement payment rights may be made by the transferee and must be brought in the circuit court in the county in which the payee resides. If the payee is not a resident of this State the application must be brought in the circuit court in the county in which the structured settlement agreement was approved. (B) For applications made on or after January 1, 2024, for the approval of a transfer of structured settlement payment rights pursuant to this chapter, the application of the transferee must include evidence that the transferee is registered to do business in this State as a structured settlement purchase company. (C) A timely hearing must be held on an application for approval of a transfer of structured settlement payment rights. The payee must appear in person at the hearing unless the court determines that good cause exists to excuse the payee from appearing in person. (D) Not less than twenty days before the scheduled hearing on an application for approval of a transfer of structured settlement payment rights pursuant to Section 15-50-40, the transferee must file with the court and serve on all interested parties a notice of the proposed transfer and the application for its authorization. The notice must include: (1) a copy of the transferee's application; (2) a copy of the transfer agreement; (3) a copy of the disclosure statement required pursuant to Section 15-50-30; (4) the payee's name, age, and county of domicile; (5) a listing of each of the payee's dependents, and each dependent's age; (6)(a) any prior transfers by the payee to the transferee or an affiliate, or through the transferee or an affiliate to an assignee which were approved; (b) any proposed transfers by the payee to the transferee or an affiliate, or through the transferee or an affiliate; (c) and any applications for approval made by the transferee or an affiliate, or through the transferee or an affiliate to an assignee, which were denied; (7) a sworn affidavit from the transferee listing any prior transfers by the payee that includes the details of the reasonable measures taken to search for and identify prior transfers to any person or entity other than the transferee or an affiliate or an assignee of the transferee and any prior proposed transfer applications by the payee to any person or entity other than the transferee or an affiliate or an assignee of a transferee or affiliate which were denied; (8) an affidavit from the payee disclosing all prior transfers by the payee to any person or entity; (9) notification that an interested party may support, oppose, or otherwise respond to the transferee's application, in person or by counsel, by submitting written comments to the court, or by participating in the hearing; and (10) notification of the time and place of the hearing and notification of the manner and the time for filing written responses to the application, which must be not less than fifteen days after service of the transferee's notice, for consideration by the court. (E) If the payee cancels a transfer agreement or if the transfer agreement otherwise terminates, after an application for approval of a transfer of structured settlement payment rights has been filed and before it has been granted or denied, the transferee must promptly request the dismissal of the application. Editor's Note 2023 Act No. 22, SECTION 20, provides as follows: "SECTION 20. SECTION 9 through SECTION 16 take effect on January 1, 2024. All other SECTIONS take effect on July 1, 2023, and apply to applications filed on or after the effective date." Effect of Amendment 2023 Act No. 22, SECTION 6, rewrote the section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-29-40 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 29 / Section 15-29-40
SECTION 15-29-40. Publication in two successive weeks as equivalent of publication for two weeks or fifteen days.
Status: in_force

When it is required that notice be published in a newspaper for two weeks or fifteen days the publication of such notice in two successive weeks shall be sufficient if at least eight days shall have expired after the date of the first publication and on or before the date fixed for the doing of the thing for which notice is given.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-63-200 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 63 / Section 15-63-200
SECTION 15-63-200. Filing judgment roll against corporation or vacating letters patent.
Status: in_force

Upon the rendition of such judgment against a corporation or for the vacating or annulling of letters patent the Attorney General shall cause a copy of the judgment roll to be forthwith filed in the office of the Secretary of State.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-53-110 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 53 / Section 15-53-110
SECTION 15-53-110. Review of declaratory judgments.
Status: in_force

All orders, judgments and decrees under this chapter may be reviewed as other orders, judgments and decrees.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-3-40 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 3 / Article 1 / Section 15-3-40
SECTION 15-3-40. Exceptions as to persons under disability.
Status: in_force

If a person entitled to bring an action mentioned in Article 5 of this chapter or an action under Chapter 78 of this title, except for a penalty or forfeiture or against a sheriff or other officer for an escape, is at the time the cause of action accrued either: (1) within the age of eighteen years; or (2) insane; the time of the disability is not a part of the time limited for the commencement of the action, except that the period within which the action must be brought cannot be extended: (a) more than five years by any such disability, except infancy; nor (b) in any case longer than one year after the disability ceases.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-39-870 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 39 / Article 5 / Section 15-39-870
SECTION 15-39-870. Judicial sales shall be res judicata as to innocent purchasers, even without confirmation.
Status: in_force

Upon the execution and delivery by the proper officer of the court of a deed for any property sold at a judicial sale under a decree of a court of competent jurisdiction the proceedings under which such sale is made shall be deemed res judicata as to any and all bona fide purchasers for value without notice, notwithstanding such sale may not subsequently be confirmed by the court.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-61-370 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 61 / Article 3 / Section 15-61-370
SECTION 15-61-370. Cotenant requesting partition by sale.
Status: in_force

(A) If any cotenant requests partition by sale, after the determination of value pursuant to Section 15-61-360, the party filing the partition action, after receipt of the value information from the clerk's office, shall send notice to the parties that any cotenant, except a cotenant that requested partition by sale, may buy all of the interests of the cotenants that requested partition by sale. (B) A cotenant, except a cotenant that requested partition by sale, who is interested in purchasing the interests of the cotenants that requested partition by sale, shall notify the court of that interest no later than ten days prior to the date set for the partition trial. A cotenant that did not request partition by sale must be allowed to purchase the interests of any cotenant who requested a partition by sale, as provided in this article, whether default has been entered against the cotenant or not. (C) The purchase price for each of the interests of a cotenant that requested partition by sale is the value of the entire parcel determined pursuant to Section 15-61-360 multiplied by the cotenant's fractional ownership of the entire parcel. (D) After the expiration of the period in subsection (B), the following requirements apply: (1) If only one cotenant elects to buy all the interests of the cotenants that requested partition by sale, the court shall notify the party filing the partition action of that fact. After receiving notice from the court, the party filing the partition action shall notify all the parties of that same fact. (2) If more than one cotenant elects to buy all the interests of the cotenants that requested partition by sale, the court, by order, shall allocate the right to buy those interests among the electing cotenants based on each electing cotenant's existing fractional ownership of the entire parcel divided by the total existing fractional ownership of all cotenants electing to buy. The court shall send notice of the order to the party that filed the partition action and, within one week from the date notice was sent, the party filing the partition action shall send a copy of the order showing the price to be paid by each electing cotenant to all other cotenants with a known address. (3) If no cotenant elects to buy all the interests of the cotenants that requested partition by sale, the court shall notify the party filing the partition action to send notice to all the parties of that fact and the court shall resolve the partition action, by order, pursuant to Section 15-61-380. (E) If notices are sent to the parties under subsection (D)(1) or (2), the court shall set a date, not sooner than sixty days after the date the notice was sent, by which electing cotenants must pay their apportioned price into the court. After this date, the following requirements apply: (1) If all electing cotenants timely pay their apportioned price into court, the court shall issue an order reallocating all the interests of the cotenants and disburse the amounts held by the court to the persons entitled to them. (2) If no electing cotenant timely pays its apportioned price, the court shall resolve the partition action pursuant to Section 15-61-380(A) and (B), as if the interests of the cotenants that requested partition by sale were not purchased. (3) If one or more but not all of the electing cotenants fail to pay their apportioned price on time, the court, on motion, shall order the party so moving to give notice to the electing cotenants that paid their apportioned price of the interest remaining and the price for all the interests. (F) Not later than twenty days after notice is sent pursuant to subsection (E)(3), any cotenant who paid may elect to purchase all of the remaining interest by paying the entire price into the court. After an additional twenty-day period, the following requirements apply: (1) If only one cotenant pays the entire price for the remaining interests, the court shall issue an order reallocating the remaining interests to that cotenant and disburse the amounts held by it to the persons entitled to them. (2) If no cotenant pays the entire price for the remaining interests, the court shall resolve the partition action pursuant to Section 15-61-380, as if the interests of the cotenants that requested partition by sale were not purchased. (3) If more than one cotenant pays the entire price for the remaining interests, the court shall reapportion the remaining interests among those paying cotenants, based on each paying cotenant's original fractional ownership of the entire parcel divided by the total original fractional ownership of all cotenants that paid the entire price for the remaining interests. The court shall issue promptly an order reallocating all of the cotenants' interests, disburse the amounts held by it to the persons entitled to them, and promptly refund any excess payment held by the court. (G) Not later than forty days after the party filing the partition action sends notice to the parties pursuant to subsection (A), any cotenant entitled to buy an interest under this section may request the court to authorize a sale as part of the pending action of the interests of cotenants named as defendants and served with the complaint, but that did not appear in the action. (H) If the court receives a timely request under subsection (G), the court, after a hearing, may deny the request or authorize the requested additional sale on such terms as the court determines are fair and reasonable, subject to the following limitations: (1) A sale authorized under this subsection may occur only after the purchase prices for all interests subject to sale under subsections (A) through (F) have been paid into court and those interests have been reallocated among the cotenants as provided in those subsections. (2) The purchase price for the interest of a nonappearing cotenant is based on the court's determination of value pursuant to Section 15-61-360. Editor's Note 2016 Act No. 153, SECTION 6, provides as follows: "SECTION 6. This act takes effect on January 1, 2017, and applies to partition actions filed on or after that date."
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-35-920 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 35 / Article 11 / Section 15-35-920
SECTION 15-35-920. Filing of foreign judgment and affidavit; docketing and indexing; effect; stay of enforcement upon filing of motion for relief or notice of defense.
Status: in_force

(A) A copy of a foreign judgment authenticated in accordance with an act of Congress or the statutes of this State may be filed in the office of the clerk of court of any county of this State in which the judgment debtor resides or owns real or personal property. Along with the foreign judgment, the judgment creditor or his attorney shall make and file with the clerk an affidavit which states that the foreign judgment is final, that it is unsatisfied in whole or in part setting forth the amount remaining unpaid on the judgment, and whether the judgment is further contested. A contested judgment includes a judgment for which post-trial motions are pending before the trial court, notice of appeal has been filed, or an appeal is pending. (B) Upon the filing of the foreign judgment and the affidavit, the foreign judgment must be docketed and indexed in the same manner as a judgment of this State; however, no foreign judgment may be indexed if contested until resolved and no execution may issue upon the foreign judgment nor may any other proceeding be taken for its enforcement until the expiration of thirty days from the date upon which notice of filing is served in accordance with Section 15-35-930. (C) A judgment so filed has the same effect and is subject to the same defenses as a judgment of this State and must be enforced or satisfied in like manner; however, if the judgment is contested, or the judgment debtor files a motion for relief or notice of defense pursuant to Section 15-35-940, enforcement of the foreign judgment is stayed automatically, without security, except as hereinafter provided, until the court finally disposes of the matter. During the time a motion for relief is pending or a stay under this section is in effect, no levy, writ of attachment, or other encumbrance of the judgment debtor's property in furtherance of execution on the foreign judgment shall issue or otherwise be enforceable in this State unless after due notice to the judgment debtor and opportunity to be heard in a court of competent jurisdiction, the judgment creditor shows that the judgment debtor's property in this State has been or is about to be disposed of or removed from this State with intent to defraud the judgment creditor, or to otherwise deplete the assets for purposes of avoiding payment of the judgment.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-19-90 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 19 / Article 1 / Section 15-19-90
SECTION 15-19-90. Form of bond.
Status: in_force

In all cases of attachment in this State the following form of bond shall be sufficient, to wit: We, __________, principal, and __________, surety, acknowledge ourselves bound unto the defendant in the sum of __________ dollars, subject to the following conditions: That the plaintiff is seeking an attachment against the defendant, which is now about to be sued out, returnable to the court above named; now, if the plaintiff shall pay all damages that the defendant may sustain and also all costs that may be incurred by him in consequence of the suing out such attachment, in the event that the plaintiff shall fail to recover in said case, then this bond to be void. Done this __________ day of __________ 19___ That he saw the above named __________, plaintiff, and __________, surety, sign, seal and as their act and deed deliver the foregoing instrument for the uses and purposes therein expressed and that he with __________ witnessed the execution thereof. __________(Seal) The foregoing bond filed and approved this __________ day of __________ 19___
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-3-610 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 3 / Article 5 / Section 15-3-610
SECTION 15-3-610. Action upon current account.
Status: in_force

In an action brought to recover a balance due upon a mutual, open and current account when there have been reciprocal demands between the parties, the cause of action shall be deemed to have accrued from the time of the last item proved in the account on either side.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-75-10 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 75 / Section 15-75-10
SECTION 15-75-10. Imputation of want of chastity to female.
Status: in_force

If any person shall utter and publish, either by writing or verbally, any words of and concerning any female imputing to her a want of chastity, the person so uttering and publishing such words shall be liable for damages in a civil action brought by the female of whom the words may be uttered and published, without proving any special damage, subject, nevertheless, to the rules of evidence.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-3-680 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 3 / Article 5 / Section 15-3-680
SECTION 15-3-680. Construction of Sections 15-3-640 through 15-3-670; creation of causes of action not heretofore recognized; preclusion of causes of action accrued on May 12, 1986.
Status: in_force

Nothing in SECTIONS 15-3-640 through 15-3-670 of the 1976 Code may be construed as creating any cause of action not heretofore existing or recognized or barring any cause of action existing or accrued on May 12, 1986.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-7-90 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 7 / Section 15-7-90
SECTION 15-7-90. Removal of suits by certain mutual insurance companies against members.
Status: in_force

Wherever any such suit or proceeding has been brought, either as an independent suit or an ancillary proceeding to a receivership suit, in any county other than the county where the member or former member resides the court where such proceeding is pending shall, upon motion of such member or former member sued, on affidavit showing that he resides in a different county, remove for trial such suit or proceeding to the county where such member or former member resides.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-3-580 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 3 / Article 5 / Section 15-3-580
SECTION 15-3-580. Actions by motor carriers for charges.
Status: in_force

All actions at law by motor carriers subject to Chapter 23 of Title 58 for the recovery of their charges or any part thereof shall be commenced within two years from the time the cause of action accrues and not thereafter. The cause of action by a motor carrier for its charges shall for the purpose of this section be deemed to accrue upon delivery or tender of delivery by the carrier.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-48-50 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 48 / Section 15-48-50
SECTION 15-48-50. Hearing; record thereof.
Status: in_force

Unless otherwise provided by the agreement: (a) The arbitrators shall appoint a time and place for the hearing and cause notification to the parties to be served personally or by registered mail not less than five days before the hearing. Appearance at the hearing waives such notice. The arbitrators may adjourn the hearing from time to time as necessary and, on request of a party and for good cause, or upon their own motion may postpone the hearing to a time not later than the date fixed by the agreement for making the award unless the parties consent to a later date. The arbitrators may hear and determine the controversy upon the evidence produced notwithstanding the failure of a party duly notified to appear. The court on application may direct the arbitrators to proceed promptly with the hearing and determination of the controversy. (b) The parties are entitled to be heard, to present evidence material to the controversy and to cross-examine witnesses appearing at the hearing. (c) The hearing shall be conducted by all the arbitrators but a majority may determine any question and render a final award. If, during the course of the hearing, an arbitrator for any reason ceases to act, the remaining arbitrator or arbitrators appointed to act as neutrals may continue with the hearing and determination of the controversy. (d) Upon the request of any party or arbitrator, the arbitrators shall cause to be made a record of the testimony and evidence introduced at the hearing.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-50-150 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 50 / Section 15-50-150
SECTION 15-50-150. Assignees not required to register.
Status: in_force

(A) An assignee is not required to register as a structured settlement purchase company to acquire structured settlement payment rights or to take a security interest in structured settlement payment rights that were transferred by the payee to a structured settlement purchase company. (B) An employee of a structured settlement purchase company, if acting on behalf of the structured settlement purchase company in connection with a transfer, is not required to register with the Secretary as provided under this chapter. Editor's Note 2023 Act No. 22, SECTION 20, provides as follows: "SECTION 20. SECTION 9 through SECTION 16 take effect on January 1, 2024. All other SECTIONS take effect on July 1, 2023, and apply to applications filed on or after the effective date."
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-47-120 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 47 / Section 15-47-120
SECTION 15-47-120. Issuance of subpoena.
Status: in_force

(A) To request issuance of a subpoena under this chapter, a party must submit a foreign subpoena to the clerk of court of the county in which discovery is sought to be conducted in this State. A request for the issuance of a subpoena under this chapter does not constitute an appearance in the courts of this State. (B) When a party submits a foreign subpoena to a clerk of court in this State, the clerk, in accordance with the rules of court, promptly shall issue a subpoena for service upon the person to which the foreign subpoena is directed. The subpoena must incorporate the terms used in the foreign subpoena and contain or be accompanied by the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of all counsel of record in the proceeding to which the subpoena relates and of any party not represented by counsel. Editor's Note 2010 Act No. 132, SECTION 2, provides: "This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor and applies to requests for discovery in cases pending on that date."
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-50-70 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 50 / Section 15-50-70
SECTION 15-50-70. Scope of transfer agreement.
Status: in_force

(A) The provisions of this chapter may not be waived by a payee. (B) A transfer agreement entered into by a payee who resides in this State must provide that disputes under the transfer agreement, including a claim that the payee has breached the agreement, must be determined pursuant to the laws of this State. A transfer agreement shall not authorize the transferee or another party to confess judgment or consent to entry of judgment against the payee. (C) Transfer of structured settlement payment rights do not extend to payments that are life-contingent unless, before the date on which the payee signs the transfer agreement, the transferee has established and has agreed to maintain procedures reasonably satisfactory to the annuity issuer and the structured settlement obligor for: (1) periodically confirming the payee's survival; and (2) giving the annuity issuer and the structured settlement obligor prompt written notice if the payee dies. (D) A payee who proposes to make a transfer of structured settlement payment rights does not incur any penalty, forfeit any application fee or other payment, or otherwise incur a liability to the proposed transferee or an assignee based on a failure of the transfer to satisfy the conditions of this chapter. (E) This chapter does not authorize a transfer of structured settlement payment rights in contravention of law. (F) Compliance with the requirements of Section 15-50-30 and fulfillment of the conditions in Section 15-50-40 are the sole responsibility of the transferee in a transfer of structured settlement payment rights, and neither the structured settlement obligor nor the annuity issuer bears responsibility for, or liability arising from, noncompliance with the requirements or failure to fulfill the conditions. Editor's Note 2023 Act No. 22, SECTION 20, provides as follows: "SECTION 20. SECTION 9 through SECTION 16 take effect on January 1, 2024. All other SECTIONS take effect on July 1, 2023, and apply to applications filed on or after the effective date." Effect of Amendment 2023 Act No. 22, SECTION 7, in (B), in the first sentence, deleted "on or after the effective date of this chapter" following "entered into", and in the second sentence, substituted "shall not authorize" for "may not authorize"; and in (E), deleted "nor imply that a transfer under a transfer agreement entered into before the effective date of this chapter is valid or invalid" from the end.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-35-830 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 35 / Article 9 / Section 15-35-830
SECTION 15-35-830. Payment of taxes by lienholders.
Status: in_force

Any person holding a lien by way of a judgment upon any property, the subject of taxation, upon which the judgment debtor shall have failed to pay the tax or upon which there may exist a lien for taxes on any other property of the judgment debtor may, at any time before the sale thereof for delinquent taxes, as provided in Title 12, pay the tax on all the property of the judgment debtor, with any costs, penalties or assessments which may have accrued thereon. And thereupon he shall be entitled, as against the judgment debtor, his representatives, privies or assigns, to include the amount so paid and all interest thereafter accruing thereon in the debt secured by such judgment. If a judgment creditor pay such taxes he shall have the first lien on the property subject to such tax to the extent of the taxes so paid with interest from the date of payment.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-43-20 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 43 / Section 15-43-20
SECTION 15-43-20. Attorney General, solicitor, or citizen may bring suit for injunction.
Status: in_force

Whenever a nuisance is kept, maintained or exists, as defined in this chapter, the Attorney General, the solicitor of the judicial district in which such nuisance is kept or any citizen of the State may maintain an action in equity in the name of the State, upon the relation of such Attorney General, solicitor or citizen, to enjoin perpetually such nuisance, the person conducting or maintaining the nuisance and the owner or agent of the building or ground upon which the nuisance exists.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-69-150 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 69 / Section 15-69-150
SECTION 15-69-150. Amount of bond required of defendant when claim is for debt.
Status: in_force

In all actions in claim and delivery when the purpose is to collect a debt the undertaking required of the defendant shall in no case be in excess of double the amount of the debt claimed by the plaintiff to be due. But if there is an appeal the court from which the appeal is taken may increase the bond.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-73-30 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 73 / Section 15-73-30
SECTION 15-73-30. Intent of chapter.
Status: in_force

Comments to SECTION 402A of the Restatement of Torts, Second, are incorporated herein by reference thereto as the legislative intent of this chapter.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-67-420 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 67 / Article 5 / Section 15-67-420
SECTION 15-67-420. Plaintiff's right to treble damages.
Status: in_force

If the party grieved recover in such action and it be found by verdict or in other manner by due form of law that the party defendant entered with force into the lands and tenements or, after his entry, did hold them with force, the plaintiff shall recover treble damages against the defendant.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-50-50 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 50 / Section 15-50-50
SECTION 15-50-50. Rights and obligations of obligors; discharge of liability.
Status: in_force

Following a transfer of structured settlement payment rights pursuant to this chapter: (1) the structured settlement obligor and the annuity issuer may rely on the court order approving the transfer in redirecting periodic payments to an assignee or transferee in accordance with the order approving the transfer and shall, as to all parties except the transferee or an assignee designated by the transferee, be discharged and released from liability for the redirected payments. Such discharge and release shall not be affected by the failure of any party to the transfer to comply with this chapter or with the court order approving the transfer; (2) the transferee is liable to the structured settlement obligor and the annuity issuer: (a) for taxes incurred by the parties as a consequence of the transfer if the transfer contravenes the terms of the structured settlement; and (b) for other liabilities or costs, including reasonable costs and attorney's fees, arising from compliance by the parties with the requirements of this chapter, with the order of the court, or for costs arising as a consequence of the transferee's failure to comply with this chapter; (3) neither the annuity issuer nor the structured settlement obligor is required to divide a periodic payment between the payee and any transferee or assignee or between two or more transferees or assignees; and (4) any further transfer of structured settlement payment rights by the payee may be made only after compliance with all the requirements of this chapter. Editor's Note 2023 Act No. 22, SECTION 20, provides as follows: "SECTION 20. SECTION 9 through SECTION 16 take effect on January 1, 2024. All other SECTIONS take effect on July 1, 2023, and apply to applications filed on or after the effective date." Effect of Amendment 2023 Act No. 22, SECTION 5, rewrote (1), and in (2)(b), substituted "requirements of this chapter, with the order of the court, or for costs" for "order of the court or".
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-9-415 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 9 / Article 3 / Section 15-9-415
SECTION 15-9-415. Service on nonresident vessel operators.
Status: in_force

Service of process upon the Director of the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, as agent of the nonresident operator of any vessel as defined in Section 50-21-10 in the waters of this State as defined in Section 50-21-10, shall be made by leaving a copy thereof, with a fee of four dollars, in the hands of the director or his office and such service shall be sufficient service upon the nonresident if notice of the service and a copy of the process are forthwith sent by certified mail by the plaintiff or the director to the defendant and the defendant's return receipt and the plaintiff's affidavit of compliance herewith are appended to the summons or other process and filed with the summons, complaint and other papers in the cause. The director shall keep a record of all processes which shall show the day and hour of service upon him. When the certified return receipt shall be returned to the director, he shall deliver it to the plaintiff on request and keep a record showing the date of its receipt by him and its delivery to the plaintiff.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-7-50 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 7 / Section 15-7-50
SECTION 15-7-50. Hearing elsewhere by consent.
Status: in_force

Nothing in SECTIONS 15-7-10, 15-7-30 or 15-7-40 contained shall be so construed as to prevent the hearing of any such action as is referred to in those sections by consent of the parties or their attorneys and of the guardian ad litem of any infant party to the action in a county other than that in which the action may have been brought and may be pending or other than that in which the property is situated.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-67-220 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 67 / Article 3 / Section 15-67-220
SECTION 15-67-220. Effect of occupation under written instrument or court decree or judgment.
Status: in_force

Whenever it shall appear (a)that the occupant or those under whom he claims entered into the possession of premises under claim of title, exclusive of any other right, founding such claim upon a written instrument as being a conveyance of the premises in question or upon the decree or judgment of a competent court and (b) that there has been a continued occupation and possession of the premises, or of some part of such premises, included in such instrument, decree or judgment under such claim for ten years, the premises so included shall be deemed to have been held adversely, except that when the premises so included consist of a tract divided into lots, the possession of one lot shall not be deemed a possession of any other lot of the same tract.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-81-130 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 81 / Section 15-81-130
SECTION 15-81-130. Applicability of limitations granted successor.
Status: in_force

(A) The limitations of Section 15-81-140 apply to a corporation that is a successor and became a successor before January 1, 1972, or is a successor of that corporation's successors. (B) The limitations of Section 15-81-140 do not apply to: (1) workers' compensation benefits paid by or on behalf of an employer to an employee pursuant to Title 42, or a comparable workers' compensation law of another jurisdiction; (2) a claim against a corporation that does not constitute a successor asbestos-related liability; (3) an insurance company, as defined in Chapter 1, Title 38; (4) an obligation pursuant to the National Labor Relations Act, as amended, or pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement; or (5) a successor that after a merger or consolidation continued in the business of mining asbestos, in the business of selling or distributing asbestos fibers, or in the business of manufacturing, distributing, removing, or installing asbestos-containing products that were the same or substantially the same as those products previously manufactured, distributed, removed, or installed by the transferor.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-3-310 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 3 / Article 3 / Section 15-3-310
SECTION 15-3-310. Action by State.
Status: in_force

The State will not sue any person for or in respect to any real property or the issues or profits thereof by reason of the right or title of the State to the same unless: (1) Such right or title shall have accrued within twenty years before any action or other proceeding for the same shall be commenced; or (2) The State or those from whom it claims shall have received the rents and profits of such real property or of some part thereof within the space of twenty years.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-32-530 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 32 / Article 5 / Section 15-32-530
SECTION 15-32-530. Awards not to exceed certain limits; Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office to calculate adjustments to maximum awards; publication in State Register.
Status: in_force

(A) Except as provided in subsections (B) and (C), an award of punitive damages may not exceed the greater of three times the amount of compensatory damages awarded to each claimant entitled thereto or the sum of five hundred thousand dollars. (B) The limitation provided in subsection (A) may not be disclosed to the jury. If the jury returns a verdict for punitive damages in excess of the maximum amount specified in subsection (A), the trial court should first determine whether: (1) the wrongful conduct proven under this section was motivated primarily by unreasonable financial gain and determines that the unreasonably dangerous nature of the conduct, together with the high likelihood of injury resulting from the conduct, was known or approved by the managing agent, director, officer, or the person responsible for making policy decisions on behalf of the defendant; or (2) the defendant's actions could subject the defendant to conviction of a felony and that act or course of conduct is a proximate cause of the plaintiff's damages; If the trial court determines that either item (1) or (2) apply, then punitive damages must not exceed the greater of four times the amount of compensatory damages awarded to each claimant entitled thereto or the sum of two million dollars and, if necessary, the trial court shall reduce the award and enter judgment for punitive damages in the maximum amount allowed by this subsection. If the trial court determines that neither item (1) or (2) apply, then the award of punitive damages shall be subject to the maximum amount provided by subsection (A) and the trial court shall reduce the award and enter judgment for punitive damages in the maximum amount allowed by subsection (A). (C) However, when the trial court determines one of the following apply, there shall be no cap on punitive damages: (1) at the time of injury the defendant had an intent to harm and determines that the defendant's conduct did in fact harm the claimant; or (2) the defendant has pled guilty to or been convicted of a felony arising out of the same act or course of conduct complained of by the plaintiff and that act or course of conduct is a proximate cause of the plaintiff's damages; or (3) the defendant acted or failed to act while under the influence of alcohol, drugs, other than lawfully prescribed drugs administered in accordance with a prescription, or any intentionally consumed glue, aerosol, or other toxic vapor to the degree that the defendant's judgment is substantially impaired. (D) At the end of each calendar year, the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office must determine the increase or decrease in the ratio of the Consumer Price Index to the index as of December thirty-one of the previous year, and the maximum amount recoverable for punitive damages pursuant to subsection (A) must be increased or decreased accordingly. As soon as practicable after this adjustment is calculated, the Executive Director of the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office shall submit the revised maximum amount recoverable for punitive damages to the State Register for publication, pursuant to Section 1-23-40(2), and the revised maximum amount recoverable for punitive damages becomes effective upon publication in the State Register. For purposes of this subsection, "Consumer Price Index" means the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers as published by the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. Code Commissioner's Note At the direction of the Code Commissioner, references in this section to the offices of the former State Budget and Control Board, Office of the Governor, or other agencies, were changed to reflect the transfer of them to the Department of Administration or other entities, pursuant to the directive of the South Carolina Restructuring Act, 2014 Act No. 121, SECTION 5(D)(1). Editor's Note 2011 Act No. 52, SECTION 7, provides as follows: "SECTION 7. This act takes effect January 1, 2012, and applies to all actions that accrue on or after the effective date except the provisions of SECTION 3 do not apply to any matter pending on the effective date of this act."
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-39-720 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 39 / Article 5 / Section 15-39-720
SECTION 15-39-720. Upset bids within thirty days on foreclosure or execution sale.
Status: in_force

In all judicial sales of real estate for the foreclosure of mortgages and sales in execution the bidding shall not be closed upon the day of sale but shall remain open until the thirtieth day after such sale, exclusive of the day of sale. Within such thirty day period any person other than the highest bidder at the sale or any representative thereof in foreclosure and execution suits may enter a higher bid upon complying with the terms of sale by making any necessary deposit as a guaranty of his good faith, and thereafter within such period any person, other than such highest bidder at the sale or any representative thereof, in foreclosure suits may in like manner raise the last highest bid, and the successful purchaser shall be deemed to be the person who submitted the last highest bid within such period and made the necessary deposit or guaranty. But the mortgagee or his representative shall enter such bid as he desires at the time the sale is made, and he and all persons acting in his behalf shall be precluded from entering any other bid in any amount at any other time except the single or last bid made by him or in his behalf at the sale. If the thirtieth day falls on Sunday the bidding shall be closed on the Monday immediately following. The bidding shall be reopened by the officer making the sale on the thirtieth day after the sale, exclusive of the day of the sale, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon and the bidding shall be allowed to continue until the property shall be knocked down in the usual custom of auction to the successful highest bidder complying with the terms of sale. The sales officer shall announce the sales about to be closed and shall receive the final bids in such sales in the order determined by him.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-74-30 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 74 / Section 15-74-30
SECTION 15-74-30. Charitable or nonprofit organization receiving distressed food in good faith exempt from civil and criminal liability; exception.
Status: in_force

A bona fide charitable or nonprofit organization or food bank or prepared and perishable food program which in good faith receives distressed food apparently fit for human consumption is not subject to criminal penalty or civil damages arising from the condition of the food unless an injury results from the gross negligence, recklessness, or intentional misconduct of the organization.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-39-30 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 39 / Article 1 / Section 15-39-30
SECTION 15-39-30. Issuance of executions; effective period.
Status: in_force

Executions may issue upon final judgments or decrees at any time within ten years from the date of the original entry thereof and shall have active energy during such period, without any renewal or renewals thereof, and this whether any return may or may not have been made during such period on such executions.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-63-180 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 63 / Section 15-63-180
SECTION 15-63-180. Costs against corporation or persons claiming to be such.
Status: in_force

If judgment be rendered in such action against a corporation or against persons claiming to be a corporation the court may cause the costs to be collected by execution against the persons claiming to be a corporation or by attachment or process against the directors or other officers of such corporation.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-53-80 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 53 / Section 15-53-80
SECTION 15-53-80. Parties.
Status: in_force

When declaratory relief is sought all persons shall be made parties who have or claim any interest which would be affected by the declaration, and no declaration shall prejudice the rights of persons not parties to the proceeding. In any proceeding which involves the validity of a municipal ordinance or franchise the municipality shall be made a party and shall be entitled to be heard. If the statute, ordinance or franchise is alleged to be unconstitutional the Attorney General shall also be served with a copy of the proceeding and be entitled to be heard.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-65-100 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 65 / Section 15-65-100
SECTION 15-65-100. Compensation of receivers of corporate property.
Status: in_force

Receivers of the property within this State of foreign or other corporations shall be allowed such commissions as may be fixed by the court appointing them.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-63-190 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 63 / Section 15-63-190
SECTION 15-63-190. Restraining corporation; appointment of receiver.
Status: in_force

When such judgment shall be rendered against a corporation the court shall have power to restrain the corporation, to appoint a receiver of its property and to take an account and make distribution thereof among its creditors. And the Attorney General, immediately after the rendition of such judgment, shall institute proceedings for that purpose.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-9-220 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 9 / Article 3 / Section 15-9-220
SECTION 15-9-220. Service on corporations generally; who is deemed to be agent of railroad.
Status: in_force

Service upon any person occupying an office or room in any railway station and attending to and transacting therein any business of any railroad shall be deemed service upon the corporation under the charter of which such railroad is authorized by law. Any such person shall be deemed the agent of the corporation, notwithstanding he may claim to be the agent of some other person or corporation claiming to operate the railroad by virtue of any lease, contract or agreement.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-61-25 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 61 / Article 1 / Section 15-61-25
SECTION 15-61-25. Right of first refusal of joint tenant or tenant in common to purchase property prior to partition; procedure.
Status: in_force

(A) For the purposes of this section, "joint tenants and tenants in common" include heirs or devisees. Upon the filing of a petition for partition of real property owned by joint tenants or tenants in common, the court shall provide for the nonpetitioning joint tenants or tenants in common who are interested in purchasing the property to notify the court of that interest no later than ten days prior to the date set for the trial of the case. The nonpetitioning joint tenants or tenants in common shall be allowed to purchase the interests in the property as provided in this section whether default has been entered against them or not. (B) In the circumstances described in subsection (A) of this section, and in the event the parties cannot reach agreement as to the price, the value of the interest or interests to be sold shall be determined by one or more competent real estate appraisers, as the court shall approve, appointed for that purpose by the court. The appraisers appointed pursuant to this section shall make their report in writing to the court within thirty days after their appointment. The costs of the appraisers appointed pursuant to this section shall be taxed as a part of the cost of court to those seeking to purchase the interests of the joint tenants or tenants in common petitioning to sell their interest in the property described in the petition for partition. (C) In the event that the petitioning joint tenants or tenants in common object to the value of the interests as determined by the appointed appraisers, those joint tenants or tenants in common shall have ten days from the date of filing of the report to file written notice of objection to the report and request a hearing before the court on the value. An evidentiary hearing limited to the proposed valuation of the interests of the petitioning joint tenants or tenants in common shall be conducted, and an order as to the valuation of the interests of the petitioning joint tenants or tenants in common shall be issued. (D) After the valuation of the interest in property is completed as provided in subsection (B) or (C) of this section, the nonpetitioning joint tenants or tenants in common seeking to purchase the interests of those filing the petition shall have forty-five days to pay into the court the price set as the value of those interests to be purchased. Upon the payment and approval of it by the court, the court shall execute and deliver or cause to be executed and delivered the proper instruments transferring title to the purchasers. (E) In the event that the nonpetitioning joint tenants or tenants in common fail to pay the purchase price as provided in subsection (D) of this section, the court shall proceed according to its traditional practices in partition sales.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-9-310 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 9 / Article 3 / Section 15-9-310
SECTION 15-9-310. Service on attorney of reciprocal insurance subscribers.
Status: in_force

Service of process on the attorney, as defined in Section 38-45-20, for subscribers, as defined in Section 38-45-10, to reciprocal or interinsurance contracts shall be made by serving three copies thereof upon the Director of the Department of Insurance as the agent of such attorney pursuant to the provisions of Section 38-45-60. The director shall file one copy, forward one copy to the attorney and return one copy with his acceptance of service. Editor's Note In the opinion of the Code Commissioner, the text references to SECTIONS 38-45-10 and 38-45-60 should be to SECTIONS 38-17-10 and 38-17-60, respectively. The reference to SECTION 38-45-20 cannot be correlated; that section no longer exists.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-19-390 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 19 / Article 3 / Section 15-19-390
SECTION 15-19-390. Proceedings on judgment for defendant.
Status: in_force

If the foreign corporation or absent, absconding or concealed defendant recover judgment against the plaintiff in any such action any bond taken by the sheriff or constable, except such as are mentioned in SECTION 15-19-380, all the proceeds of sales and moneys collected by him and all the property attached remaining in his hands shall be delivered by him to the defendant or his agent, on request, and the warrant shall be discharged and the property released therefrom.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-19-50 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 19 / Article 1 / Section 15-19-50
SECTION 15-19-50. Affidavit required.
Status: in_force

The warrant may be issued whenever it shall appear by affidavit that a cause of action exists against the defendant, specifying the amount of the claim and the grounds thereof, and that the defendant is: (1) A foreign corporation or not a resident of this State; (2) The master, captain or agent of any sailing vessel entering any of the ports of this State and is about to take such vessel out of any port of this State without paying the pilotage fees provided by law; or (3) (a) Has departed from the State with intent to defraud his creditors or to avoid service of a summons or keeps himself concealed therein with the like intent, (b) has removed or is about to remove any of his property from this State with intent to defraud his creditors or (c) has assigned, disposed of or secreted or is about to assign, dispose of or secrete any of his property with the like intent, whether such defendant be a resident of this State or not. But in cases in which the defendant is the master, captain or agent of any vessel entering any of the ports of this State it shall only be necessary that the affidavit show that a cause of action exists against such defendant for pilotage services, specifying the amount of the claim and the grounds thereof, and that the defendant is about to take such vessel out of any port of this State and refuses to pay or has not paid the fees provided by law for such pilotage services.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-69-170 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 69 / Section 15-69-170
SECTION 15-69-170. Manner of qualification and justification of sureties.
Status: in_force

The qualifications of sureties and their justification shall be as are prescribed by SECTIONS 15-17-230 and 15-17-270 in respect to bail upon an order of arrest.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-53-90 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 53 / Section 15-53-90
SECTION 15-53-90. Determination of facts; jury trials.
Status: in_force

When a proceeding under this chapter involves the determination of an issue of fact such issue may be tried and determined in the same manner as issues of fact are tried and determined in other civil actions in the court in which the proceeding is pending. All existing rights to jury trials are hereby preserved.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-3-240 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 3 / Article 2 / Section 15-3-240
SECTION 15-3-240. Who may recover losses; recovery limited to economic loss and attorney's fees; exceptions; frivolous claims.
Status: in_force

(A) A person in privity of contract with another person may recover only economic loss as well as reasonable attorney's fees and costs on any claims against the other as a result of a Year 2000 problem, except that recovery based upon any of the following claims is not subject to this limitation: (1) the claim is for personal injury to an individual; or (2) the person defending the claim has acted with fraudulent intent or reckless disregard for the truth in the formation of the contract; or (3) a fiduciary duty recognized by law is owed by the person defending the claim to the person bringing the claim. (B) No claim may be made under Title 39, Chapter 5, South Carolina Unfair Trade Practices Act. (C) Any person who successfully defends a claim based on a Year 2000 problem is entitled to recover reasonable costs and attorney's fees from the person bringing the claim if the court determines that the claim is frivolous. In determining whether or not a claim is frivolous, the court shall rely on the standards of the federal courts for the imposition of those sanctions pursuant to Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure as those sanctions exist as of the date of the enactment of this article.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-17-460 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 17 / Article 5 / Section 15-17-460
SECTION 15-17-460. Prisoner shall be discharged on making assignment.
Status: in_force

The petitioner upon executing such assignment and delivering unto the hands of the assignee or assignees all and singular his title deeds, vouchers and effects listed in his account, so far as in his power so to do, shall be forthwith discharged, by order, from arrest and confinement.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-67-270 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 67 / Article 3 / Section 15-67-270
SECTION 15-67-270. Petition for license to enter adjoining property to make improvements, repairs, or maintenance; good faith effort to obtain permission; evidentiary hearing; requirements and restrictions.
Status: in_force

(A) When an owner or lessee of real property seeks to improve, repair, or maintain his property, and the property is so situated that it is impossible to perform the improvements, repairs, or maintenance without entering adjoining property and permission to enter the adjoining property has been denied, or unreasonable conditions have been placed upon the entry, the owner or lessee seeking to make the improvements, repairs, or maintenance may petition the circuit court for a license to enter the adjoining property for the purpose of performing the improvements, repairs, or maintenance. For the purpose of this section improvement, repair, or maintenance does not include new construction on a site without a preexisting structure. The property owner over whose property a license is sought to be granted by the court shall be joined as a party respondent to the action seeking a license and the case shall be bound by the South Carolina rules of civil procedure and shall be heard by the court sitting in equity without a jury. (B) The petition may not be filed until after a good faith effort to obtain permission to enter the adjoining property has been made. A good faith effort to obtain permission for entry is considered to have been made if the request describes the nature and manner of the requested improvements, repairs, or maintenance, solicits specific dates for entry, and: (1) the petitioner can present evidence of an actual request and denial of entry, or the imposition of unreasonable conditions upon entry; or (2) if the petitioner requests entry in writing and provides notice of the respective rights of parties under this section by certified mail, return receipt requested, to the owner of record according to the tax records for the county in which the adjoining property is located, a period of forty-five days has expired since the written requests for entry was made, and the adjoining property owner has not responded to the request in writing. The court may waive the forty-five day period if service upon the owner of record has been accomplished and if the court finds the petitioner's property will suffer irreparable waste from imposition of the forty-five day period. (C) The petition must be accompanied by affidavits or other evidence setting forth the circumstances which make the entry necessary, the dates the entry is desired, and a description of the improvements, repairs, or maintenance which will be accomplished. (D) After an evidentiary hearing based upon a motion for immediate relief, the license may be granted if the court finds that: (1) the entry upon the adjoining property does not irreparably or unreasonably damage the adjoining property; (2) the grant of license is not an unreasonable encroachment or burden upon the adjoining property; and (3) the license is reasonably necessary for the improvement or preservation of the petitioner's property. (E) If the court grants the license, it shall specify: (1) the nature of the improvements, repairs, or maintenance to be accomplished; (2) the manner in which the improvements, repairs, or maintenance will be accomplished; (3) the dates upon which the license begins and ends; (4) the amount of compensation to be paid to the property owner over whose property the license is granted; (5) that the owner or lessee seeking the license must provide to any person performing improvements, repairs, or maintenance a copy of the court order setting forth the specific conditions of the license; and (6) any other terms and conditions the court considers appropriate to minimize disruption to the adjoining owner's or lessee's use and enjoyment of the property over which the license is granted. (F) Once the authorized improvements, repairs, or maintenance are commenced, they shall proceed expeditiously. The license shall terminate upon the earlier of the completion of the improvements, repairs, or maintenance set forth in the license or the expiration of the license. The licensee shall in all respects restore the adjoining land to its condition prior to entry and is liable for actual damages occurring as a result of the entry including, but not limited to, physical damage to the adjoining property and loss of revenue. (G) The court may require that an appropriate bond or other security be posted by the licensee and shall require the licensee to provide adequate liability and workers' compensation insurance to indemnify the adjoining property owner and lessee against claims arising from the work authorized by the license. (H) Except in the case of wilful, wanton, or reckless misconduct, the adjoining property owner or lessee upon whose property entry is authorized under this section is immune from liability from all suits, claims, and causes of action arising from the entry and work authorized by the license. (I) The right of entry provided for in this section applies only to portions of the adjoining property including, but not limited to, driveways, patios, sidewalks, and other unimproved land. It does not authorize entry into any buildings on the adjoining property.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-78-190 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 78 / Section 15-78-190
SECTION 15-78-190. Compensation of plaintiff pursuant to underinsured or uninsured defendant provisions of plaintiff's insurance policy.
Status: in_force

If the amount of the verdict or judgment is not satisfied by reason of the monetary limitations of this chapter upon recovery from the State or political subdivision thereof, the plaintiff's insurance company, subject to the underinsured and uninsured defendant provisions of the plaintiff's insurance policy, if any, shall compensate the plaintiff for the difference between the amount of the verdict or judgment and the payment by the political subdivision. If a cause of action is barred under SECTION 15-78-60 of the 1976 Code, the plaintiff's insurance company must compensate him for his losses subject to the aforementioned provisions of his insurance policy.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-7-30 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 7 / Section 15-7-30
SECTION 15-7-30. Actions that must be tried in county where defendant resides; definitions; factors to consider in determining venue of actions against resident and nonresident individuals and domestic and foreign corporations.
Status: in_force

(A) As used in this section: (1) "Domestic corporation" means a "domestic corporation" as defined in Section 33-1-400. (2) "Domestic limited partnership" means a "domestic limited partnership" as defined in Section 33-42-20. (3) "Domestic limited liability company" means a "domestic limited liability partnership" as defined in Section 33-41-1110 with its principal place of business within this State. (4) "Domestic limited liability partnership" means a "domestic limited liability partnership" as defined in Section 33-41-1110 with its principal place of business within this State. (5) "Foreign corporation" means a "foreign corporation" as defined in Section 33-1-400. (6) "Foreign limited partnership" means a "foreign limited partnership" as defined in Section 33-42-20. (7) "Foreign limited liability company" means a "foreign limited liability partnership" as defined in Section 33-41-1150 with its principal place of business outside this State. (8) "Foreign limited liability partnership" means a "foreign limited liability partnership" as defined in Section 33-41-1150 with its principal place of business outside this State. (9) "Nonresident individual" means a person who is not domiciled in this State. (10) "Principal place of business" means: (a) the corporation's home office location within the State from which the corporation's officers direct, control, or coordinate its activities; (b) the location of the corporation's manufacturing, sales, or purchasing facility within the State if the corporation does not have a home office within the State; or (c) the location at which the majority of corporate activity takes place if the corporation has multiple offices, centers of manufacturing, sales, or purchasing located within the State if the corporation does not have a home office within the State and has more than one manufacturing, sales, or purchasing facility within the State. The following factors may be considered when determining the location at which the majority of corporate activity takes place: (i) the number of employees located in any one county; (ii) the authority of the employees located in any one county; or (iii) the tangible corporate assets that exist in any one county. (11) "Resident individual" means a person who is domiciled in this State. (B) In cases not provided for in Sections 15-7-10, 15-7-20, or 15-78-100, the action must be tried in the county where it properly may be brought and tried against the defendant according to the provisions of this section. If there is more than one defendant, the action may be tried in any county where the action properly may be maintained against one of the defendants pursuant to this section. This section is subject to the power of the court in the county where the action properly may be maintained according to this section to change the place of trial as provided in Section 15-7-100 or as otherwise provided by law. (C) A civil action tried pursuant to this section against a resident individual defendant must be brought and tried in the county in which the: (1) defendant resides at the time the cause of action arose; or (2) most substantial part of the alleged act or omission giving rise to the cause of action occurred. (D) A civil action tried pursuant to this section against a nonresident individual defendant must be brought and tried in the county in which the: (1) most substantial part of the alleged act or omission giving rise to the cause of action occurred; or (2) plaintiff resides at the time the cause of action arose, or if the plaintiff is a domestic corporation, domestic limited partnership, domestic limited liability company, domestic limited liability partnership, foreign corporation, foreign limited partnership, foreign limited liability company, or foreign limited liability partnership, at its principal place of business at the time the cause of action arose. (E) A civil action tried pursuant to this section against a domestic corporation, domestic limited partnership, domestic limited liability company, or domestic limited liability partnership, must be brought and tried in the county in which the: (1) corporation, limited partnership, limited liability company, or limited liability partnership has its principal place of business at the time the cause of action arose; or (2) most substantial part of the alleged act or omission giving rise to the cause of action occurred. (F) A civil action tried pursuant to this section against a foreign corporation required to possess and possessing a certificate of authority under the provisions of Section 33-15-101 et seq., a foreign limited partnership required to possess and possessing a certificate of authority under the provisions of Section 33-15-101 et seq., a foreign limited liability company required to possess and possessing a certificate of authority under the provisions of Section 33-15-101 et seq., or a foreign limited liability partnership required to possess and possessing a certificate of authority under the provisions of Section 33-15-101 et seq. must be brought and tried in the county in which the: (1) most substantial part of the alleged act or omission giving rise to the cause of action occurred; or (2) foreign corporation, foreign limited partnership, foreign limited liability company, or foreign limited liability partnership has its principal place of business at the time the cause of action arose. (G) A civil action tried pursuant to this section against a foreign corporation, except a foreign corporation described in subsection (F); a foreign limited partnership, except a foreign limited partnership described in subsection (F); a foreign limited liability company, except a foreign limited liability company described in subsection (F); or a foreign limited liability partnership, except a foreign limited liability partnership described in subsection (F); must be brought and tried in the county in which the: (1) most substantial part of the alleged act or omission giving rise to the cause of action occurred; (2) plaintiff resides at the time the cause of action arose, or if the plaintiff is a domestic corporation, domestic limited partnership, domestic limited liability company, domestic limited liability partnership, foreign corporation, foreign limited partnership, foreign limited liability company, or foreign limited liability partnership, at its principal place of business at the time the cause of action arose; or (3) foreign corporation, foreign limited partnership, foreign limited liability company, or foreign limited liability partnership has its principal place of business at the time the cause of action arose. (H) Owning property and transacting business in a county is insufficient in and of itself to establish the principal place of business for a corporation for purposes of this section. Effect of Amendment The 2005 amendment, added subsection (A); designated the original text as subsection (B) and rewrote it; and added subsections (C) to (H).
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-39-110 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 39 / Article 1 / Section 15-39-110
SECTION 15-39-110. Sheriff may break into house in certain cases.
Status: in_force

The sheriff or his deputy may break and enter any house after a request to be permitted to enter such house and a refusal of such request, in order to arrest the person or to seize the goods of anyone in such house, provided, such sheriff or his deputy have process requiring him to arrest such person or seize such goods.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-19-320 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 19 / Article 3 / Section 15-19-320
SECTION 15-19-320. Maximum undertaking in certain actions.
Status: in_force

In actions when the purpose is to collect a debt for the purchase price of any property when such property, or any part thereof, is attached and in all actions when property is permitted to be attached to secure the payment of a debt claimed to be due, the undertaking required of the defendant shall in no case be in excess of double the amount of the debt claimed by the plaintiff to be due in the action. But if there is an appeal the court from which any appeal is taken may increase the bond.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-61-30 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 61 / Article 1 / Section 15-61-30
SECTION 15-61-30. State as owner of escheated interest is not necessary party.
Status: in_force

If one having a vested interest in real estate as tenant in common dies without a will and without known heirs partition proceedings may be maintained against unknown heirs without making the State a party to the action, and a sale and conveyance under a decree in the cause shall vest such interest as may be subject to escheat under the provisions of this chapter in the purchaser, provided that in such decree provisions be made for the payment of the divisible share of such deceased person in the proceeds of sale, if any, to the State Treasurer, to be paid into the State Treasury, subject to the right of the heir or heirs to recover such share by proper proceedings and on issue tried in the court of common pleas.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-17-580 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 17 / Article 5 / Section 15-17-580
SECTION 15-17-580. Submission of issues to jury already empaneled.
Status: in_force

Nothing contained in this article shall be construed to deprive a judge, sitting in open court, of the power to submit to the jury already empaneled all issues arising under SECTION 15-17-490. But in all cases in which the plaintiff shall appeal the defendant shall be entitled to his enlargement, pending the appeal, on the terms prescribed in SECTION 15-17-550.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-17-780 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 17 / Article 7 / Section 15-17-780
SECTION 15-17-780. Sheriff or constable may be liable as bail.
Status: in_force

If after being arrested the defendant escape or be rescued or bail be not given or justified or a deposit made instead thereof the sheriff or constable shall himself be liable as bail. But he may discharge himself from such liability by the giving and justification of bail, as provided in SECTIONS 15-17-230 and 15-17-260 to 15-17-280, at any time before process against the person of the defendant to enforce an order or judgment in the action.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-19-530 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 19 / Article 5 / Section 15-19-530
SECTION 15-19-530. Effecting attachment.
Status: in_force

The sheriff or constable to whom such warrant is directed and delivered shall immediately attach the real estate or personal property of the defendant which is described in the warrant and hold it until further order of the court. When real estate is attached a true and attested copy of such warrant shall be, by the officer serving it, delivered to the defendant or left at his last or usual place of residence, and the officer making such service shall also leave a true and attested copy of such warrant of attachment in the office in which, by law, a deed of such estate is required to be recorded. If the party whose estate is attached does not reside in this State then such copy shall be delivered to his tenant, agent or attorney, if any be known, and if no such agent, tenant or attorney be known then a copy of such warrant of attachment, with the officer's return thereon, lodged in the office in which, by law, a deed of such real estate ought to be recorded, shall be deemed sufficient service. The clerk or register of the office wherein the warrant of attachment is required to be lodged shall receive such warrant and enter in a book kept for that purpose the names of the parties, the date of the warrant of attachment, the sum demanded and the officer's return thereon.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-39-750 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 39 / Article 5 / Section 15-39-750
SECTION 15-39-750. Return of deposit when bid raised.
Status: in_force

When any bid is raised as provided in SECTION 15-39-720 the deposit theretofore made by the prior high bidder shall be returned, with written notice to the effect that his bid has been raised, to him or his attorney personally or by mail within two days thereafter, and he shall have no further interest in the bid or sale.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-19-280 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 19 / Article 3 / Section 15-19-280
SECTION 15-19-280. Sale of personal property likely to deteriorate or expensive to keep.
Status: in_force

Whenever (a) any officer of this State shall have taken possession of any personal property under process of attachment and the defendant or other intervening party claiming the property fails to replevy such property within sixty days after such property has been attached or seized by such officer, (b) such property remains in the hands of such officer and (c) either such property is of a perishable nature, liable to deteriorate in value, or the keeping of it is attended with considerable expense as compared to the value of the property, such property may be sold by such officer under the direction of the court after giving not less than ten days' advertisement of the manner, time and place of sale in three public places in the county, one of which shall be on the courthouse door. The court in its discretion may cause such additional notice or manner of advertisement as in its judgment the circumstances demand. The proceeds of any such sale after the payment of the legal expenses shall be turned over to the clerk of court to await the judgment of court.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-48-130 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 48 / Section 15-48-130
SECTION 15-48-130. Vacating an award.
Status: in_force

(a) Upon application of a party, the court shall vacate an award where: (1) The award was procured by corruption, fraud or other undue means; (2) There was evident partiality by an arbitrator appointed as a neutral or corruption in any of the arbitrators or misconduct prejudicing the rights of any party; (3) The arbitrators exceeded their powers; (4) The arbitrators refused to postpone the hearing upon sufficient cause being shown therefor or refused to hear evidence material to the controversy or otherwise so conducted the hearing, contrary to the provisions of SECTION 15-48-50, as to prejudice substantially the rights of a party; or (5) There was no arbitration agreement and the issue was not adversely determined in proceedings under SECTION 15-48-20 and the party did not participate in the arbitration hearing without raising the objection; But the fact that the relief was such that it could not or would not be granted by a court of law or equity is not ground for vacating or refusing to confirm the award. (b) An application under this section shall be made within ninety days after delivery of a copy of the award to the applicant, except that, if predicated upon corruption, fraud or other undue means, it shall be made within ninety days after such grounds are known or should have been known. (c) In vacating the award on grounds other than stated in item (5) of subsection (a) the court may order a rehearing before new arbitrators chosen as provided in the agreement, or in the absence thereof, by the court in accordance with SECTION 15-48-30, or, if the award is vacated on grounds set forth in items (3) and (4) of subsection (a) the court may order a rehearing before the arbitrators who made the award or their successors appointed in accordance with SECTION 15-48-30. The time within which the agreement requires the award to be made is applicable to the rehearing and commences from the date of the order. (d) If the application to vacate is denied and no motion to modify or correct the award is pending, the court shall confirm the award.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-36-10 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 36 / Section 15-36-10
SECTION 15-36-10. Frivolous lawsuits; signing pleadings; imposition of sanctions; notice and opportunity to respond; reporting violations.
Status: repealed

(A)(1) A pleading filed in a civil or administrative action on behalf of a party who is represented by an attorney must be signed by at least one attorney of record who is an active member of the South Carolina Bar or who is admitted to practice in the courts of this State and must include the address and telephone number of the attorney signing the document. (2) A document filed in a civil or administrative action by a party who is not represented by an attorney must be signed by the party and must include the address and telephone number of the party. (3) The signature of an attorney or a pro se litigant constitutes a certificate to the court that: (a) the person has read the document; (b) a reasonable attorney in the same circumstances would believe that under the facts his claim or defense may be warranted under the existing law or, if his claim or defense is not warranted under the existing law, a good faith argument exists for the extension, modification, or reversal of existing law; (c) a reasonable attorney in the same circumstances would believe that his procurement, initiation, continuation, or defense of a civil cause is not intended merely to harass or injure the other party; and (d) a reasonable attorney in the same circumstances would believe his claim or defense is not frivolous, interposed for delay, or brought for any purpose other than securing proper discovery, joinder of parties, or adjudication of the claim or defense upon which the proceedings are based. (4) An attorney or pro se litigant participating in a civil or administrative action or defense may be sanctioned for: (a) filing a frivolous pleading, motion, or document if: (i) the person has not read the frivolous pleading, motion, or document; (ii) a reasonable attorney in the same circumstances would believe that under the facts, his claim or defense was clearly not warranted under existing law and that a good faith or reasonable argument did not exist for the extension, modification, or reversal of existing law; (iii) a reasonable attorney presented with the same circumstances would believe that the procurement, initiation, continuation, or defense of a civil cause was intended merely to harass or injure the other party; or (iv) a reasonable attorney presented with the same circumstances would believe the pleading, motion, or document is frivolous, interposed for merely delay, or merely brought for any purpose other than securing proper discovery, joinder of parties, or adjudication of the claim or defense upon which the proceedings are based; (b) making frivolous arguments a reasonable attorney would believe were not reasonably supported by the facts; or (c) making frivolous arguments that a reasonable attorney would believe were not warranted under the existing law or if there is no good faith argument that exists for the extension, modification, or reversal of existing law. (B)(1) If a document is not signed or does not otherwise comply with this section, it must be stricken unless it is signed promptly or amended to comply with this section after the omission is called to the attention of the attorney or the party. (2) If a document is signed in violation of this section, or an attorney or pro se litigant has violated subsection (A)(4), the court, upon its own motion or motion of a party, may impose upon the person in violation any sanction which the court considers just, equitable, and proper under the circumstances. (C)(1) At the conclusion of a trial and after a verdict for or a verdict against damages has been rendered or a case has been dismissed by a directed verdict, summary judgment, or judgment notwithstanding the verdict, upon motion of the prevailing party, the court shall proceed to determine if the claim or defense was frivolous. An attorney, party, or pro se litigant shall be sanctioned for a frivolous claim or defense if the court finds the attorney, party, or pro se litigant failed to comply with one of the following conditions: (a) a reasonable attorney in the same circumstances would believe that under the facts, his claim or defense was clearly not warranted under existing law and that a good faith or reasonable argument did not exist for the extension, modification, or reversal of existing law; (b) a reasonable attorney in the same circumstances would believe that his procurement, initiation, continuation, or defense of the civil suit was intended merely to harass or injure the other party; or (c) a reasonable attorney in the same circumstances would believe that the case or defense was frivolous as not reasonably founded in fact or was interposed merely for delay, or was merely brought for a purpose other than securing proper discovery, joinder of proposed parties, or adjudication of the claim or defense upon which the proceedings are based. (2) Unless the court finds by a preponderance of the evidence that an attorney, party, or pro se litigant engaged in advancing a frivolous claim or defense, the attorney, party, or pro se litigant shall not be sanctioned. (D) A person is entitled to notice and an opportunity to respond before the imposition of sanctions pursuant to the provisions of this section. A court or party proposing a sanction pursuant to this section shall notify the court and all parties of the conduct constituting a violation of the provisions of this section and explain the basis for the potential sanction imposed. Upon notification, the attorney, party, or pro se litigant who allegedly violated subsection (A)(4) has thirty days to respond to the allegations as that person considers appropriate including, but not limited to, by filing a motion to withdraw the pleading, motion, document, or argument or by offering an explanation of mitigation. (E) In determining if an attorney, party, or a pro se litigant has violated the provisions of this section, the court shall take into account: (1) the number of parties; (2) the complexity of the claims and defenses; (3) the length of time available to the attorney, party, or pro se litigant to investigate and conduct discovery for alleged violations of the provisions of subsection (A)(4); (4) information disclosed or undisclosed to the attorney, party, or pro se litigant through discovery and adequate investigation; (5) previous violations of the provisions of this section; (6) the response, if any, of the attorney, party, or pro se litigant to the allegation that he violated the provisions of this section; and (7) other factors the court considers just, equitable, or appropriate under the circumstances. (F) In determining whether sanctions are appropriate or the severity of a sanction, the court shall consider previous violations of the provisions of this section. (G) Sanctions may include: (1) an order for the party represented by an attorney or pro se litigant to pay the reasonable costs and attorney's fees of the prevailing party under a motion pursuant to this section. Costs shall include, but not be limited to, the following: the time required of the prevailing party by the frivolous proceeding, and travel expenses, mileage, parking, costs of reports, and any additional reasonable consequential expenses of the prevailing party resulting from the frivolous proceeding; (2) an order for the attorney to pay a reasonable fine to the court; or (3) a directive of a nonmonetary nature, including injunctive relief, designed to deter a future frivolous action or an action in bad faith. (H) If the court imposes a sanction on an attorney in violation of the provisions of this section, the court shall report its findings to the South Carolina Commission of Lawyer Conduct. (I) This act shall not alter the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure or the South Carolina Appellate Court Rules. (J) The provisions of this section shall not apply where an attorney or pro se litigant establishes a basis to proceed with litigation, or to assert or controvert an issue therein, that is not frivolous, which includes a good faith argument for an extension, modification, or reversal of the existing law. (K) The provisions of this section apply in addition to all other remedies available at law or in equity. (L) The amount requested for damages in a pleading may not be considered in a determination of a violation of the provisions of this section. (M) All violations of the provisions of this section must be reported to the South Carolina Supreme Court and a public record must be maintained and reported annually to the Governor, Senate, and House of Representatives. Effect of Amendment The 2005 amendment rewrote this section. SECTIONS 15-36-20 to 15-36-50. Repealed by 2005 Act No. 27, SECTION 12, eff July 1, 2005. Editor's Note Former SECTION 15-36-20 was entitled "Factors supporting finding of proper purpose for action" and was derived from 1988 Act No. 432, SECTION 6. Former SECTION 15-36-30 was entitled "Recovery of attorney's fees and court costs" and was derived from 1988 Act No. 432, SECTION 6. Former SECTION 15-36-40 was entitled "Burden of proof" and was derived from 1988 Act No. 432, SECTION 6. Former SECTION 15-36-50 was entitled "Court to determine fees and costs" and was derived from 1988 Act No. 432, SECTION 6.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-48-200 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 48 / Section 15-48-200
SECTION 15-48-200. Appeals.
Status: in_force

(a) An appeal may be taken from: (1) An order denying an application to compel arbitration made under SECTION 15-48-20; (2) An order granting an application to stay arbitration made under SECTION 15-48-20(b); (3) An order confirming or denying confirmation of an award; (4) An order modifying or correcting an award; (5) An order vacating an award without directing a rehearing; or (6) A judgment or decree entered pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. (b) The appeal shall be taken in the manner and to the same extent as from orders or judgments in a civil action.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-67-620 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 67 / Article 7 / Section 15-67-620
SECTION 15-67-620. When warrant shall not be issued.
Status: in_force

If the person in possession shall, before the expiration of the five days, appear before such magistrate and satisfy him that he has a bona fide color of claim to the possession of such premises and enter into bond to the person claiming the land, with good and sufficient security, to be approved by the magistrate, conditioned for the payment of all such costs and expenses as the person claiming to be the owner of the land may incur in the successful establishment of his claim and also for any damages which the owner of the land may sustain by reason of the possession being withheld from him, by any of the modes of proceeding now provided by law, the magistrate shall not issue his warrant as provided in SECTION 15-67-610.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-43-90 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 43 / Section 15-43-90
SECTION 15-43-90. Use of proceeds of sale of personal property.
Status: in_force

The proceeds of the sale of the personal property, as provided in SECTION 15-43-80, shall be applied in the payment of the costs of the action and abatement, and the balance, if any, shall be paid to the defendant.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-78-170 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 78 / Section 15-78-170
SECTION 15-78-170. Action or claim for death of person; division of recovery.
Status: in_force

An action or claim for the death of a person may be brought under this chapter by the executor or administrator respectively, of the person's estate when death results from bodily injury if the bodily injury would have entitled the injured party to maintain an action or claim if death had not ensued. The provisions and limitations of this chapter are applicable to any such action or claim. Every action or claim must be for the benefit of the wife or husband and child, or children of the person whose death has been so caused and if there is no wife, husband, child, or children, then for the benefit of the parent or parents, and if there is none, then for the benefit of the heirs-at-law or the distributees of the person whose death has been so caused. Any amount recovered must be divided among the before-mentioned parties in those shares as they would have been entitled to if the deceased had died intestate and the amount recovered had been personal assets of his estate.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-53-100 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 53 / Section 15-53-100
SECTION 15-53-100. Costs.
Status: in_force

In any proceeding under this chapter the court may make such award of costs as may seem equitable and just.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-65-50 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 65 / Section 15-65-50
SECTION 15-65-50. No receiver shall be appointed before judgment when bond is offered.
Status: in_force

No receiver of the property of any person or corporation shall be appointed before final judgment in the cause if the party claiming the property so sought to be placed in the hands of a receiver or the party in possession thereof shall offer a bond, in the penalty of double the value of the property, with sufficient security, approved by the clerk of the court of common pleas of the court in which the action is brought, fully to account for and deliver over, whenever thereafter required by any final adjudication in the cause, the property sought to be placed in the hands of a receiver and to meet and satisfy any decree or judgment or order that may be made in the cause.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-39-380 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 39 / Article 3 / Section 15-39-380
SECTION 15-39-380. Compelling party or witnesses to attend.
Status: in_force

The party or witness may be required to attend before the judge or a master.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-1-270 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 1 / Section 15-1-270
SECTION 15-1-270. Receipt for deposit.
Status: in_force

Whenever any sum of money is so deposited in lieu of a bond, recognizance or undertaking the person depositing it shall be entitled to a receipt therefor, stating that such sum of money has been deposited and is held for the same purpose as would have been specified and conditioned in the bond, recognizance or undertaking in lieu whereof such sum of money is so deposited.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-3-540 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 3 / Article 5 / Section 15-3-540
SECTION 15-3-540. Three years.
Status: in_force

Within three years: (1) An action against a sheriff, coroner or constable upon a liability incurred by the doing of an act in his official capacity and in virtue of his office or by the omission of an official duty, including the nonpayment of money collected upon an execution, subject to the provisions of SECTION 15-3-560; and (2) An action upon a statute for a penalty or forfeiture when the action is given to the party aggrieved or to such party and the State, except when the statute imposing it prescribes a different limitation.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-7-40 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 7 / Section 15-7-40
SECTION 15-7-40. Suits against certain fiduciaries.
Status: in_force

Any administrator or administratrix appointed by any probate court of this State may be sued in the county where such administration has been granted. Any executor or executrix may likewise be sued in the county where the testator's will has been proved or admitted to probate. Any guardian may likewise be sued in the county in which the letters of guardianship have been issued.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-78-90 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 78 / Section 15-78-90
SECTION 15-78-90. Settlement of claims and actions; institution of action where claim has or has not been filed.
Status: in_force

(a) The State Fiscal Accountability Authority, or the political subdivision where it has not purchased insurance from the State Fiscal Accountability Authority, may adjust, compromise, settle, or allow any claim or settle or compromise any action. (b) Whether or not the claim is filed, the claimant is entitled to institute an action against the appropriate agency or political subdivision. Provided, however, if a claimant files a claim, he may not institute an action until after the occurrence of the earliest of one of the following three events: (1) the passage of one hundred eighty days from the filing of the claim with the governmental entity, (2) the governmental entity's disallowance of the claim, or (3) the governmental entity's rejection of a settlement offer. Code Commissioner's Note At the direction of the Code Commissioner, references in this section to the offices of the former State Budget and Control Board, Office of the Governor, or other agencies, were changed to reflect the transfer of them to the Department of Administration or other entities, pursuant to the directive of the South Carolina Restructuring Act, 2014 Act No. 121, SECTION 5(D)(1), effective July 1, 2015.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-39-390 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 39 / Article 3 / Section 15-39-390
SECTION 15-39-390. Master shall certify examination to judge.
Status: in_force

If before the master the examination shall be taken by the master and certified to the judge.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-17-820 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 17 / Article 7 / Section 15-17-820
SECTION 15-17-820. Charges for keeping debtor in jail.
Status: in_force

The charges for keeping such debtor in the common jail shall be such as are allowed by law for dieting prisoners confined under process in the court of general sessions. And if the plaintiff recover judgment against the debtor or an assignment of his effects be made as provided in this chapter such charges may be recovered as disbursements in the action or paid out of the estate assigned before any dividend is declared.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-39-100 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 39 / Article 1 / Section 15-39-100
SECTION 15-39-100. Execution constitutes no lien on personal property prior to levy.
Status: in_force

Executions shall not bind the personal property of the debtor, but personal property shall only be bound by actual attachment or levy thereon for the period of four months from the date of such levy.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-9-400 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 9 / Article 3 / Section 15-9-400
SECTION 15-9-400. Procedure when nonresident aircraft operator defendant does not accept and receipt for notice sent by certified mail.
Status: in_force

If the defendant in any such cause shall fail or refuse to accept and receipt for certified mail containing the notice of service and copy of the process and it shall be returned to the plaintiff or Director, the original envelope as returned shall be retained and the notice and copy of the summons shall be sent by open mail and the envelope and affidavit of mailing with sufficient postage of such open letter shall be filed with the clerk of court in which such action is pending and upon the filing thereof shall have the same force and legal effect as if such process has been personally served upon such defendant.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-37-220 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 37 / Section 15-37-220
SECTION 15-37-220. Officers may take out execution for costs.
Status: in_force

Whenever a case may be (a) settled or determined at the mutual costs of parties or (b) discontinued or settled by plaintiff, or whenever (a) the judgment shall be for defendant or (b) the execution against the defendant shall be returned nulla bona, any of the officers entitled to receive any portion of such costs may issue an execution for his costs, or the clerk may issue for the whole, directed to the sheriff who shall execute such process as in other cases of execution delivered to him.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-75-60 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 75 / Section 15-75-60
SECTION 15-75-60. Sham legal processes involving persons impersonating government officials or employees, or by persons falsely asserting authority of law; remedies.
Status: in_force

A person who is injured by a sham legal process involving a violation of Section 16-17-735 has the following civil remedies against the person who committed the violation or who caused the violation to be committed: (1) actual damages; (2) punitive damages; (3) costs; and (4) reasonable attorney's fees. The amount of the recovery for the plaintiff is not determinative of the attorney's fee.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-61-330 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 61 / Article 3 / Section 15-61-330
SECTION 15-61-330. Preliminary determination whether property is heirs' property; construction with Article 1.
Status: in_force

(A) In an action to partition real property under Article 1, upon motion of a party or from statements contained in the pleadings, the court shall determine, in a preliminary hearing held after the filing of the action, whether the property is heirs' property. If the court determines that the property is heirs' property, the partition of the heirs' property is governed by the provisions of this article, unless all cotenants otherwise agree in a record. (B) This article supplements the provisions of Article 1 and if the provisions of this article differ from the provisions of Article 1, the provisions of this article control for partitions of heirs' property. Editor's Note 2016 Act No. 153, SECTION 6, provides as follows: "SECTION 6. This act takes effect on January 1, 2017, and applies to partition actions filed on or after that date."
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-35-160 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 35 / Article 1 / Section 15-35-160
SECTION 15-35-160. Judgment for damages and costs against married women.
Status: in_force

In an action brought by or against a married woman judgment may be given against her as well for costs as for damages or both for such costs and for such damages, in the same manner as against other persons, to be levied and collected of her separate estate and not otherwise.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-38-50 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 38 / Section 15-38-50
SECTION 15-38-50. Effect of release, covenant not to sue, or not to enforce judgment.
Status: in_force

When a release or a covenant not to sue or not to enforce judgment is given in good faith to one of two or more persons liable in tort for the same injury or the same wrongful death: (1) it does not discharge any of the other tortfeasors from liability for the injury or wrongful death unless its terms so provide, but it reduces the claim against the others to the extent of any amount stipulated by the release or the covenant, or in the amount of the consideration paid for it, whichever is the greater; and (2) it discharges the tortfeasor to whom it is given from all liability for contribution to any other tortfeasor.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-78-130 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 78 / Section 15-78-130
SECTION 15-78-130. Defense of political subdivision which has not purchased insurance through State Fiscal Accountability Authority.
Status: in_force

The defense for a political subdivision against an action brought pursuant to this chapter, when the political subdivision does not purchase insurance through the State Fiscal Accountability Authority, must be provided by the political subdivision or its designee. Code Commissioner's Note At the direction of the Code Commissioner, references in this section to the offices of the former State Budget and Control Board, Office of the Governor, or other agencies, were changed to reflect the transfer of them to the Department of Administration or other entities, pursuant to the directive of the South Carolina Restructuring Act, 2014 Act No. 121, SECTION 5(D)(1), effective July 1, 2015.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-67-460 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 67 / Article 5 / Section 15-67-460
SECTION 15-67-460. Putting party ousted in possession.
Status: in_force

If it be found before any of them that any do contrary to this article, then the court shall cause to be reseized the lands and tenements so entered or holden as stated in this article and shall put the party so put out in full possession of the same lands and tenements so entered or holden as before.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-78-20 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 78 / Section 15-78-20
SECTION 15-78-20. Legislative findings; declaration of public policy; extent of, and construction of, waiver of immunity.
Status: in_force

(a) The General Assembly finds that while a private entrepreneur may be readily held liable for negligence of his employees within the chosen ambit of his activity, the area within which government has the power to act for the public good has been without limit and, therefore, government did not have the duty to do everything which might have been done. The General Assembly further finds that each governmental entity has financial limitations within which it must exercise authorized power and discretion in determining the extent and nature of its activities. Thus, while total immunity from liability on the part of the government is not desirable, see McCall v. Batson, neither should the government be subject to unlimited nor unqualified liability for its actions. The General Assembly recognizes the potential problems and hardships each governmental entity may face being subjected to unlimited and unqualified liability for its actions. Additionally, the General Assembly recognizes the impossibility of insuring for acts retrospectively. The General Assembly seeks an orderly transition to the recognition of individuals' rights against the tortious sovereign as defined herein. Consequently, it is declared to be the public policy of the State of South Carolina that the State, and its political subdivisions, are only liable for torts within the limitations of this chapter and in accordance with the principles established herein. It is further declared to be the public policy of the State of South Carolina that to insure an orderly transition from sovereign immunity to qualified and limited liability that the General Assembly intends to provide for liability on the part of the State and its political subdivisions only from July 1, 1986, forward in prospective fashion. No governmental entity which was not insured at the time of the injury for which compensation is sought is liable under this chapter and those which were insured are liable only to the extent provided herein. Liability for acts or omissions under this chapter is based upon the traditional tort concepts of duty and the reasonably prudent person's standard of care in the performance of that duty. (b) The General Assembly in this chapter intends to grant the State, its political subdivisions, and employees, while acting within the scope of official duty, immunity from liability and suit for any tort except as waived by this chapter. The General Assembly additionally intends to provide for liability on the part of the State, its political subdivisions, and employees, while acting within the scope of official duty, only to the extent provided herein. All other immunities applicable to a governmental entity, its employees, and agents are expressly preserved. The remedy provided by this chapter is the exclusive civil remedy available for any tort committed by a governmental entity, its employees, or its agents except as provided in SECTION 15-78-70(b). (c)(i) As to those causes of action that arise or accrue prior to the effective date of this act, the General Assembly reinstates sovereign immunity on the part of the State, its political subdivisions and employees, while acting within the scope of official duty provided that sovereign immunity will not bar recovery in any cause of action arising or accruing on or before the effective date of this act if the defendant maintained liability insurance coverage. (ii) In such cases involving governmental health care facilities, as defined in SECTION 15-78-30(j), recovery shall not exceed the limits of the liability insurance coverage up to a maximum recovery of five hundred thousand dollars. (iii) In all other such cases recovery shall not exceed the limits of the liability insurance coverage. (d) Nothing in this chapter affects liability based on contract nor does it affect the power of the State or its political subdivisions to contract. (e) Nothing in this chapter is construed as a waiver of the state's or political subdivision's immunity from suit in federal court under the Eleventh Amendment to the Constitution of the United States nor as consent to be sued in any state court beyond the boundaries of the State of South Carolina. (f) The provisions of this chapter establishing limitations on and exemptions to the liability of the State, its political subdivisions, and employees, while acting within the scope of official duty, must be liberally construed in favor of limiting the liability of the State. (g) The General Assembly recognizes the competing interests of either providing physicians and dentists qualified immunity under the provisions of the South Carolina Tort Claims Act or continuing unqualified liability for medical malpractice actions brought against governmentally employed physicians or dentists. While patients deserve accountable and competent health care, regardless of the public or private character of the provider, governmental entities, in order to attract qualified physicians and dentists, must be able to offer an affordable compensation and employment package, including liability insurance. The General Assembly, in amending this chapter, intends to provide an orderly transition from noninclusion to inclusion of physicians and dentists under the provisions of this chapter. Additionally, the liability limits, and hence mandated insurance coverage, of governmental entities for acts of physicians or dentists, acting within the scope of their profession, are set somewhat higher than those provided for other types of governmental liability. These higher limits and mandated coverages are recognition by the General Assembly of significantly higher damages in cases of medical malpractice. To this end, inclusion of physicians and dentists within this chapter has been delayed until January 1, 1989, when an affordable program of group liability insurance will be instituted.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-19-290 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 19 / Article 3 / Section 15-19-290
SECTION 15-19-290. Proceedings on claim of third person.
Status: in_force

If the person in whose possession property shall be attached shall appear at the return of the writ and file his answer thereto and deny the possession or control of any property belonging to the defendant or claim the money, lands, goods and chattels, debts and books of account as creditor in possession, or in his own right or in the right of some third person, or if any of the property be claimed by any other person than such defendant, then, if the plaintiff be satisfied therewith, the party in possession shall be dismissed and the plaintiff may pay the cost of his action. But if the plaintiff shall contest the return or the claim of such third person an issue shall be made up under the direction of the judge to try the question, and the party that shall prevail in the issue shall recover the cost of such proceeding of the opposite party, and judgment shall be given accordingly. If the party in possession or the third person claiming the property, as the case may be, resides in a different county from that in which the action is brought and an issue be made up between him and the plaintiff the action shall be tried in the county in which the party in possession resides. In case the property is claimed by a third person the plaintiff shall execute to such person the same undertaking that he is now required to give under SECTION 15-19-80. Such undertaking shall be executed within ten days after notice of such claim.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-29-100 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 29 / Section 15-29-100
SECTION 15-29-100. Advertisements shall be posted if newspapers refuse to publish at rates fixed.
Status: in_force

If the proprietors or managers of the newspapers in any county shall refuse to insert such advertisements in their newspapers at the rates allowed in SECTION 15-29-80 such notices shall be posted in at least three public places in the county, one of which shall be at the courthouse door.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-3-700 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 3 / Article 5 / Section 15-3-700
SECTION 15-3-700. Immunity for property damage incurred in rescue from locked vehicle.
Status: in_force

A person is immune from civil liability for property damage resulting from his forcible entry into a motor vehicle for the purpose of removing a minor or vulnerable adult from the vehicle if the person has a reasonable good faith belief that forcible entry into the vehicle is necessary because the minor or vulnerable adult is in imminent danger of suffering harm.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-19-60 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 19 / Article 1 / Section 15-19-60
SECTION 15-19-60. Form of affidavit.
Status: in_force

In all cases of attachment in this State the following form of affidavit shall be sufficient, to wit: Personally appeared before me __________ who on oath says: That __________ is justly and truly indebted to __________ in the sum of ___ dollars ($___), and that __________ is entitled to an attachment against __________ upon the grounds: __________ _
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-3-220 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 3 / Article 2 / Section 15-3-220
SECTION 15-3-220. Legislative intent.
Status: in_force

It is the intent of the South Carolina General Assembly that this article provide persons engaged in commerce in South Carolina, who suffer economic loss as a result of a Year 2000 problem, the opportunity to recover and be made whole for that economic loss while providing persons responsible for the Year 2000 problem a safe harbor from unlimited liability. This article is intended to be in addition to and supplement those protections offered by the federal Year 2000 Information and Readiness Disclosure Act.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-67-430 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 67 / Article 5 / Section 15-67-430
SECTION 15-67-430. Court of common pleas shall have jurisdiction.
Status: in_force

The court of common pleas of the county wherein such lands and tenements may be situated may inquire by the people of the same county, as well of them that make forcible entries in lands and tenements as of them which hold such lands and tenements with force.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-67-100 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 67 / Article 1 / Section 15-67-100
SECTION 15-67-100. Right to jury trial unchanged.
Status: in_force

Nothing in this article shall be construed or held to change the existing law in reference to trials by jury in all actions of trespass to try titles, trespass quare clausum fregit or ejectment or other action to recover possession of real estate.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-39-420 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 39 / Article 3 / Section 15-39-420
SECTION 15-39-420. Withholding of wages pursuant to foreign garnishment proceeding prohibited under certain circumstances.
Status: in_force

(1) No employer in this State shall withhold any portion of the wages of any employee residing in this State as a result of any garnishment proceedings brought in any court outside of this State unless the creditor first obtains a judgment against such employee growing out of the same indebtedness for which the garnishment proceedings were instituted in a court of competent jurisdiction in South Carolina. The burden of proving the competent jurisdiction of the court shall rest upon the creditor. (2) The provisions of this section shall not apply to any debt incurred outside the State of South Carolina by such employee nor shall there be any garnishment of earnings for personal services rendered by the employee regardless of where the debt was incurred. (3) Any employer violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-67-90 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 67 / Article 1 / Section 15-67-90
SECTION 15-67-90. Time limitation upon reopening matter.
Status: in_force

No judgment or decree quieting title to land or determining the title thereto, or adverse claims therein, shall be adjudged invalid or set aside for any reason, unless the action or proceeding to vacate or set aside such judgment or decree shall be commenced or application for leave to defend be made within three years from the time of filing for record a certified copy of such judgment or decree in the office of the clerk of court of the county in which the lands affected by such judgment or decree are situated or, in case of minors, within three years after coming of age.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-9-210 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 9 / Article 3 / Section 15-9-210
SECTION 15-9-210. Service of process on domestic corporations.
Status: in_force

(a) A domestic business or nonprofit corporation's registered agent is the agent of the corporation for service of any process, notice, or demand required or permitted by law to be served, and the service is binding upon the corporation. (b) The business or nonprofit corporation may be served under Rule 4(d)(8) of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the office of the registered agent, or the office of the secretary of the corporation at its principal office. Service is effective upon the date of delivery as shown on the return receipt. Entry of default and default judgments shall be subject to the conditions of Rule 4(d)(8). (c) If the business or nonprofit corporation has no registered agent, or the agent cannot be served with reasonable diligence by means authorized by rule or statute, other than under Section 15-9-710, and such appears by affidavit, the court or judge thereof, the clerk of the court of common pleas or the master may grant an order that the corporation may be served by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the office of the secretary of the corporation at its principal office. The summons shall state the date it was mailed under this subsection, and the date service is effective. Service is perfected five days after its deposit in the United States mail, as evidenced by the postmark, or other evidence of the date the summons and complaint was mailed pursuant to this paragraph, if mailed postpaid and correctly addressed to the address of the company's principal office which is listed on the last filed annual report of the business corporation or last filed notice of change of principal office for a nonprofit corporation or, if none has been filed, the address of the principal office specified in the initial annual report of the business corporation filed with the South Carolina Department of Revenue and, in the Articles of Incorporation (or initial annual report, if filed) for a nonprofit corporation. Entry of judgment and judgment by default may be taken as otherwise provided by Rule 55 of the Rules of Civil Procedure. (d) This section does not prescribe the only means, or necessarily the required means, of serving a domestic business or nonprofit corporation.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-3-80 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 3 / Article 1 / Section 15-3-80
SECTION 15-3-80. Suits by and against enemy aliens.
Status: in_force

When a person shall be an alien subject or citizen of a country at war with the United States the time of the continuance of the war shall not be a part of the period limited for the commencement of the action.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-69-60 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 69 / Section 15-69-60
SECTION 15-69-60. Manner of effecting service; when sheriff shall take and retain property.
Status: in_force

The sheriff shall without delay serve on the defendant a copy of the affidavit, notice and undertaking, by delivering it to him personally, if he can be found, or to his agent, from whose possession the property is taken, or, if neither can be found, by leaving them at the usual place of abode of either, with some person of suitable age and discretion. Upon delivery of the affidavit with the endorsement of the clerk of court or judge allowing immediate possession, the sheriff shall take the property described in the affidavit, if it be in possession of the defendant or his agent, and retain it in his custody.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-39-320 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 39 / Article 3 / Section 15-39-320
SECTION 15-39-320. Arrest in lieu of discovery order.
Status: in_force

Instead of the order requiring the attendance of the judgment debtor the judge may, upon proof by affidavit or otherwise to his satisfaction that there is danger of the debtor's leaving the State or concealing himself and that there is reason to believe that he has property which he unjustly refuses to apply to such judgment, issue a warrant requiring the sheriff of any county in which such debtor may be to arrest him and bring him before such judge. Upon being brought before the judge he may be examined on oath and if it then appears that there is danger of the debtor's leaving the State and that he has property which he has unjustly refused to apply to such judgment, he may be ordered to enter into an undertaking, with one or more sureties, that he will from time to time attend before the judge as he shall direct and that he will not during the pendency of the proceedings dispose of any portion of his property not exempt from execution. In default of entering into such undertaking he may be committed to prison by warrant of the judge as for a contempt.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-50-10 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 50 / Section 15-50-10
SECTION 15-50-10. Short title.
Status: in_force

This act may be cited as the "Structured Settlement Protection Act".
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-50-25 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 50 / Section 15-50-25
SECTION 15-50-25. Structured settlement purchase company prohibitions.
Status: in_force

(A) A transferee or structured settlement purchase company and an employee or other representative of a transferee or structured settlement purchase company must not engage in the following actions: (1) pursue or complete a transfer with a payee without complying with all applicable provisions in this chapter; (2) refuse or fail to fund a transfer after court approval of the transfer; (3) acquire structured settlement payment rights from a payee without complying with all applicable provisions in this chapter, including obtaining court approval of the transfer; (4) intentionally file a structured settlement transfer proceeding in any court other than the court specified in Section 15-50-60; (5) except as otherwise provided in this chapter, pay a commission or finder's fee to any person for facilitating or arranging a structured settlement transfer with a payee. The provisions of this subsection do not prevent a structured settlement purchase company from paying: (a) a commission or finder's fee to a person who is a structured settlement purchase company or is an employee of a structured settlement purchase company; (b) to third parties, any routine transfer expenses including, without limitation, court filing fees, escrow fees, lien recordation fees, judgment and lien search fees, attorney's fees and other similar types of fees relating to a transfer; (6) intentionally advertise materially false or misleading information regarding its products or services; (7) attempt to coerce, bribe, or intimidate a payee seeking to transfer structured settlement payment rights, including providing any gift, loan, extension of credit, advance, or other forms of consideration paid to or given to the payee as an inducement to enter a transfer agreement; (8) attempt to defraud a payee or any party to a structured settlement transfer or any interested party in a structured settlement transfer proceeding by any means including, but not limited to, forgery or false identification; (9) except as otherwise provided in this chapter, intervene in a pending structured settlement transfer proceeding if the transferee or structured settlement purchase company is not a party to the proceeding or an interested party relative to the proposed transfer which is the subject of the pending structured settlement transfer proceeding. The provisions of this chapter do not prevent a structured settlement purchase company from intervening in a pending structured settlement transfer proceeding if the payee has signed a transfer agreement with the structured settlement purchase company within sixty days before the filing of the pending structured settlement transfer proceeding and the structured settlement purchase company which filed the pending structured settlement transfer proceeding violated any provision of this chapter in connection with the proposed transfer that is the subject of the pending structured settlement transfer proceeding; (10) except as otherwise provided in this chapter, knowingly contact a payee who has signed a transfer agreement and is pursuing a proposed transfer with another structured settlement purchase company for the purpose of inducing the payee into canceling the proposed transfer or transfer agreement with the other structured settlement purchase company if a structured settlement transfer proceeding has been filed by the other structured settlement purchase company and is pending. The provisions of this subsection do not apply if a hearing has not been held in the pending structured settlement transfer proceeding within ninety days after the filing of the pending structured settlement transfer proceeding; (11) fail to dismiss a pending structured settlement transfer proceeding at the request of the payee. A dismissal of a structured settlement proceeding after a structured settlement purchase company has violated the provisions of this clause does not exempt the structured settlement purchase company from any liability under this section; (12) solicit a prospective payee through the conveyance of a document which resembles a check or other form of payment; (13) provide a transfer agreement or related document that purports to give the transferee the first choice or option to purchase any remaining structured settlement payment rights belonging to the payee which are not subject to the structured settlement transfer proceeding; or (14) communicate with a payee, a prospective payee, or a person associated with the payee: (a) after the payee, a prospective payee, or a person associated with the payee has informed the structured settlement purchase company to cease further communication; (b) at any unusual time, or at a time that the structured settlement purchase company knows is inconvenient to the consumer. In the absence of the structured settlement purchase company's knowledge of circumstances to the contrary, a time before 8:00 a.m. and after 9:00 p.m. local time at the consumer's location is inconvenient. This subsection will not apply to any payee, prospective payee, or person associated with the payee who has opted in and agreed to allow the structured settlement purchase company to contact the person when necessary; or (c) repeatedly or continuously with intent to annoy, abuse, or harass a payee, prospective payee, or a person associated with the payee. (B) A transferee or structured settlement purchase company and an employee or other representative of a transferee or structured settlement purchase company shall not instruct a payee to hire, or directly refer a payee or a prospective payee to seek independent professional advice from, a specific person, except that a structured settlement purchase company may refer a payee to a state or local referral service, bar association, legal aid, or any other entity unrelated to the structured settlement purchase company. A person rendering independent professional advice to a payee or prospective payee is not to be affected by whether a transfer occurs or does not occur and must not in any manner be affiliated with or compensated by the transferee or a structured settlement purchase company unless ordered by the court. (C) A payee may file a motion in the court in which the structured settlement transfer proceeding is pending alleging a violation of subsection (A) and may pursue all rights and remedies to which the payee may be entitled under this chapter or any other applicable law. (D) A structured settlement purchase company may file a motion in the court in which the structured settlement transfer proceeding is pending to enforce items in subsection (A) and may pursue all remedies to which the structured settlement purchase company may be entitled pursuant to this chapter or any other applicable law. (E) If a court finds that a structured settlement purchase company or transferee is in violation of this section, the court may: (1) revoke the registration of the structured settlement purchase company; (2) suspend the registration of the structured settlement purchase company for a period to be determined at the discretion of the court; and (3) enjoin the structured settlement purchase company or transferee from filing new structured settlement transfer proceedings in this State or otherwise pursuing transfers in this State. Editor's Note 2023 Act No. 22, SECTION 20, provides as follows: "SECTION 20. SECTION 9 through SECTION 16 take effect on January 1, 2024. All other SECTIONS take effect on July 1, 2023, and apply to applications filed on or after the effective date."
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-39-620 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 39 / Article 5 / Section 15-39-620
SECTION 15-39-620. Estates held in trust may be sold.
Status: in_force

All estate, real or personal, which is held in trust for him against whom execution is sued may be seized by the sheriff or officer to whom the writ is delivered and sold as the property of him that is entitled to the trust, in the same manner as if such property were held in his own name.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-32-210 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 32 / Article 3 / Section 15-32-210
SECTION 15-32-210. Definitions.
Status: in_force

As used in this article, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: (1) "Ambulatory surgical facility" means a licensed, distinct, freestanding, self-contained entity that is organized, administered, equipped, and operated exclusively for the purpose of performing surgical procedures or related care, treatment, procedures, and/or services, by licensed health care providers, for which patients are scheduled to arrive, receive surgery or related care, treatment, procedures, and/or services, and be discharged on the same day. This term does not include abortion clinics. (2) "Claimant" means the person suffering personal injury. (3) "Economic damages" means pecuniary damages arising from medical expenses and medical care, rehabilitation services, costs associated with education, custodial care, loss of earnings and earning capacity, loss of income, burial costs, loss of use of property, costs of repair or replacement of property, costs of obtaining substitute domestic services, a claim for loss of spousal services, loss of employment, loss of business or employment opportunities, loss of retirement income, and other monetary losses. (4) "Health care institution" means an ambulatory surgical facility, a hospital, an institutional general infirmary, a nursing home, and a renal dialysis facility. (5) "Health care provider" means a physician, surgeon, osteopath, nurse, oral surgeon, dentist, pharmacist, chiropractor, optometrist, podiatrist, or similar category of licensed health care provider, including a health care practice, association, partnership, or other legal entity. (6) "Hospital" means a licensed facility with an organized medical staff to maintain and operate organized facilities and services to accommodate two or more nonrelated persons for the diagnosis, treatment, and care of such persons over a period exceeding twenty-four hours and provides medical and surgical care of acute illness, injury, or infirmity and may provide obstetrical care, and in which all diagnoses, treatment, or care are administered by or performed under the direction of persons currently licensed to practice medicine and surgery in the State of South Carolina. This term includes a hospital that provides specialized service for one type of care, such as tuberculosis, maternity, or orthopedics. (7) "Institutional general infirmary" means a licensed facility which is established within the jurisdiction of a larger nonmedical institution and which maintains and operates organized facilities and services to accommodate two or more nonrelated students, residents, or inmates with illness, injury, or infirmity for a period exceeding twenty-four hours for the diagnosis, treatment, and care of such persons and which provides medical, surgical, and professional nursing care, and in which all diagnoses, treatment, or care are administered by or performed under the direction of persons currently licensed to practice medicine and surgery in the State of South Carolina. (8) "Medical malpractice" means doing that which the reasonably prudent health care provider or health care institution would not do or not doing that which the reasonably prudent health care provider or health care institution would do in the same or similar circumstances. (9) "Noneconomic damages" means nonpecuniary damages arising from pain, suffering, inconvenience, physical impairment, disfigurement, mental anguish, emotional distress, loss of society and companionship, loss of consortium, injury to reputation, humiliation, other nonpecuniary damages, and any other theory of damages including, but not limited to, fear of loss, illness, or injury. (10) "Nursing home" means a licensed facility with an organized nursing staff to maintain and operate organized facilities and services to accommodate two or more unrelated persons over a period exceeding twenty-four hours which is operated either in connection with a hospital or as a freestanding facility for the express or implied purpose of providing skilled nursing services for persons who are not in need of hospital care. This term does not include assisted living, independent living, or community residential care facilities that do not provide skilled nursing services. (11) "Personal injury" means injuries to the person including, but not limited to, bodily injuries, mental distress or suffering, loss of wages, loss of services, loss of consortium, wrongful death, survival, and other noneconomic damages and actual economic damages. (12) "Personal injury action" means an action for personal injury, including a wrongful death action pursuant to Sections 15-51-10 through 15-51-60 and a survival action pursuant to Section 15-5-90. (13) "Renal dialysis facility" means an outpatient facility which offers staff assisted dialysis or training and supported services for self-dialysis to end-stage renal disease patients. (14) "Skilled nursing services" means services that: (a) are ordered by a physician; (b) require the skills of technical or professional personnel such as registered nurses, licensed practical (vocational) nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists, and speech pathologists or audiologists; and (c) are furnished directly by, or under the supervision of such personnel.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-1-30 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 1 / Section 15-1-30
SECTION 15-1-30. "Real property" and "real estate" defined.
Status: in_force

The words "real property" and "real estate" as used in this Title are coextensive with lands, tenements and hereditaments.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-48-20 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 48 / Section 15-48-20
SECTION 15-48-20. Proceedings to compel or stay arbitration.
Status: in_force

(a) On application of a party showing an agreement described in SECTION 15-48-10, and the opposing party's refusal to arbitrate, the court shall order the parties to proceed with arbitration, but if the opposing party denies the existence of the agreement to arbitrate, the court shall proceed summarily to the determination of the issue so raised and shall order arbitration if found for the moving party, otherwise, the application shall be denied. (b) On application, the court may stay an arbitration proceeding commenced or threatened on a showing that there is no agreement to arbitrate. Such an issue, when in substantial and bona fide dispute, shall be forthwith and summarily tried and the stay ordered if found for the moving party. If found for the opposing party, the court shall order the parties to proceed to arbitration. (c) If an issue referable to arbitration under the alleged agreement is involved in an action or proceeding pending in a court having jurisdiction to hear applications under subdivision (a) of this section, the application shall be made therein. Otherwise and subject to SECTION 15-48-190, the application may be made in any court of competent jurisdiction. (d) Any action or proceeding involving an issue subject to arbitration shall be stayed if an order for arbitration or an application therefor has been made under this section or, if the issue is severable, the stay may be with respect thereto only. When the application is made in such action or proceeding, the order for arbitration shall include such stay. (e) An order for arbitration shall not be refused on the ground that the claim in issue lacks merit or bona fides or because any fault or grounds for the claim sought to be arbitrated have not been shown.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-35-620 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 35 / Article 7 / Section 15-35-620
SECTION 15-35-620. Payment by one surety shall not discharge judgment as to cosurety.
Status: in_force

In case any surety in such judgment or decree shall pay it such payment shall not operate as a satisfaction of such judgment or decree as against the cosurety or sureties thereto, but such surety shall have the right to enforce the execution on such judgment or decree against his cosurety or sureties or for contribution.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-3-120 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 3 / Article 1 / Section 15-3-120
SECTION 15-3-120. Effect of new promises in writing or part payments.
Status: in_force

No acknowledgment or promise shall be sufficient evidence of a new or continuing contract whereby to take the case out of the operation of this chapter unless it be contained in some writing signed by the party to be charged thereby. But payment of any part of principal or interest is equivalent to a promise in writing.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-3-370 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 3 / Article 3 / Section 15-3-370
SECTION 15-3-370. Persons under disability.
Status: in_force

If a person entitled to commence any action for the recovery of real property, or make an entry or defense founded on the title to real property or to rents or services out of the same is, at the time the title shall first descend or accrue, either: (1) within the age of eighteen years; or (2) insane; the time during which the disability shall continue shall not be considered any portion of the time in this article limited for the commencement of the action or the making of the entry or defense, but the action may be commenced or entry or defense made after the period of ten years and within ten years after the disability shall cease or after the death of the person entitled who shall die under the disability. But the action shall not be commenced or entry or defense made after that period.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-17-810 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 17 / Article 7 / Section 15-17-810
SECTION 15-17-810. In what cases plaintiff shall be liable for maintenance of debtor.
Status: in_force

When any person shall be taken on mesne or final process in any civil suit and, from inability to pay the demand, debt or damages or find bail, be committed to the jail and such person has no lands, tenements, goods, chattels or choses in action whereby his maintenance in jail can be defrayed, the plaintiff or person at whose instance such party shall be imprisoned shall pay and satisfy his maintenance. If such person or his attorney shall refuse or neglect, after ten days' previous notice, to pay or give security to pay the prisoner's maintenance when demanded, the sheriff or jailer in whose custody such prisoner is may discharge him from such confinement. But such prisoner shall, before he is discharged, render on oath a schedule of all his estate and assign it.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-19-80 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 19 / Article 1 / Section 15-19-80
SECTION 15-19-80. Bond required before obtaining attachment.
Status: in_force

Before issuing the warrant, the judge, clerk or magistrate shall require a written undertaking on the part of the plaintiff, with sufficient surety, to the effect that if the defendant recover judgment or the attachment be set aside by order of the court the plaintiff will pay all costs that may be awarded to the defendant and all damages which he may sustain by reason of the attachment, not exceeding the sum specified in the undertaking, which shall be at least two hundred and fifty dollars, except in case of a warrant issued by a magistrate when it shall be at least twenty-five dollars.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-3-110 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 3 / Article 1 / Section 15-3-110
SECTION 15-3-110. Limitations are not applicable to bills, notes or other evidences of debt of moneyed corporations.
Status: in_force

This chapter shall not affect actions to enforce the payment of bills, notes or other evidences of debt issued by moneyed corporations or issued or put in circulation as money.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-67-20 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 67 / Article 1 / Section 15-67-20
SECTION 15-67-20. Plaintiff limited to one action for recovery of real property.
Status: in_force

The plaintiff in actions for recovery of real property or the recovery of the possession of real property is limited to one action for recovery.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-9-410 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 9 / Article 3 / Section 15-9-410
SECTION 15-9-410. Provisions as to nonresident aircraft operators are not applicable to certain air carriers.
Status: in_force

The provisions of Sections 15-9-390 and 15-9-400 shall not apply to any incorporated air carrier holding a certificate of public convenience and necessity from the Division of Aeronautics of the Department of Commerce.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-3-560 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 3 / Article 5 / Section 15-3-560
SECTION 15-3-560. One year.
Status: in_force

Within one year: (1) An action concerning or in any manner relating to wages claimed under a Federal statute or regulation; (2) An action against a sheriff or other officer for the escape of a prisoner arrested or imprisoned on civil process; and (3) An action against any county of this State having a population as shown by the United States official census of 1930 or any subsequent United States official census in excess of eighty-five thousand brought by any former, present or future officer, including county auditors and county treasurers, employee or agent thereof on account of any claim for salary, wages, fees, costs or other emolument or claim alleged to be due him on account of services rendered or performed, or brought upon any such claim by an assignee or personal representative thereof.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-19-540 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 19 / Article 5 / Section 15-19-540
SECTION 15-19-540. Lien of attachment.
Status: in_force

The attachment shall be a lien subject to all prior liens and bind the real estate attached from the date of lodgment. It shall be a lien upon the personal property attached from the date of the levy thereon.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-69-130 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 69 / Section 15-69-130
SECTION 15-69-130. Exception to sureties.
Status: in_force

The defendant may within three days after the service of a copy of the affidavit and undertaking give notice to the sheriff that he excepts to the sufficiency of the sureties. If he fails to do so, he shall be deemed to have waived all objections to them. When the defendant excepts the sureties shall justify, on notice, in like manner as upon bail on arrest. And the sheriff shall be responsible for the sufficiency of the sureties until the objection to them is either waived, as above provided, or until they shall justify or new sureties shall be substituted and justify. But before delivery of such property to the plaintiff the defendant shall have three days after (a) such justification, (b) new sureties have been substituted by the plaintiff or (c) a holding by the sheriff that plaintiff's sureties are sufficient, within which to replevy as provided in SECTION 15-69-140.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-69-100 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 69 / Section 15-69-100
SECTION 15-69-100. Determination upon affidavit showing danger of destruction or concealment.
Status: in_force

Upon a showing unto the judge or clerk of court supported by an affidavit containing facts sufficient to show that it is probable to believe that the property at issue is in immediate danger of being destroyed or concealed by the possessor of such property and particularly describing such property and its location, the judge or clerk of court shall make a determination as to whether or not the property may be immediately seized. Provided, that the holding of a preseizure hearing by the judge shall not be a condition precedent to such determination.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-37-50 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 37 / Section 15-37-50
SECTION 15-37-50. Limitation on costs when tort judgment is less than one hundred dollars.
Status: in_force

When in an action for assault, battery, false imprisonment, libel, slander, malicious prosecution, alienation of affections, or seduction or in any other action for damages for a tort the amount recovered is less than one hundred dollars, the total amount of costs and disbursements may not exceed the amount so recovered in the action.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-39-635 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 39 / Article 5 / Section 15-39-635
SECTION 15-39-635. Judicial sales by referees.
Status: in_force

In the counties which do not have a master-in-equity, judicial sales of real property which a master has authority to perform may be performed by a referee in those matters referred to him by the presiding judge of the court of common pleas, or by a referee appointed by the presiding judge for this purpose. The provisions of law governing these sales by masters also apply to referees acting pursuant to this section. These referees have the same powers and are entitled to the same fees as masters when performing these sales. Judicial sales of real property by referees prior to the effective date of this section, in those counties that did not have a master-in-equity and which sales a master had authority to perform, are confirmed, ratified, and declared valid.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-78-120 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 78 / Section 15-78-120
SECTION 15-78-120. Limitation on liability; prohibition against recovery of punitive or exemplary damages or prejudgment interest; signature of attorney on pleadings, motions, or other papers.
Status: in_force

(a) For any action or claim for damages brought under the provisions of this chapter, the liability shall not exceed the following limits: (1) Except as provided in Section 15-78-120(a)(3), no person shall recover in any action or claim brought hereunder a sum exceeding three hundred thousand dollars because of loss arising from a single occurrence regardless of the number of agencies or political subdivisions involved. (2) Except as provided in Section 15-78-120(a)(4), the total sum recovered hereunder arising out of a single occurrence shall not exceed six hundred thousand dollars regardless of the number of agencies or political subdivisions or claims or actions involved. (3) No person may recover in any action or claim brought hereunder against any governmental entity and caused by the tort of any licensed physician or dentist, employed by a governmental entity and acting within the scope of his profession, a sum exceeding one million two hundred thousand dollars because of loss arising from a single occurrence regardless of the number of agencies or political subdivisions involved. (4) The total sum recovered hereunder arising out of a single occurrence of liability of any governmental entity for any tort caused by any licensed physician or dentist, employed by a governmental entity and acting within the scope of his profession, may not exceed one million two hundred thousand dollars regardless of the number of agencies or political subdivisions or claims or actions involved. (5) The provisions of Section 15-78-120(a)(3) and (a)(4) shall in no way limit or modify the liability of a licensed physician or dentist, acting within the scope of his profession, with respect to any action or claim brought hereunder which involved services for which the physician or dentist was paid, should have been paid, or expected to be paid at the time of the rendering of the services from any source other than the salary appropriated by the governmental entity or fees received from any practice plan authorized by the employer whether or not the practice plan is incorporated and registered with the Secretary of State. (b) No award for damages under this chapter shall include punitive or exemplary damages or interest prior to judgment. (c) In any claim, action, or proceeding to enforce a provision of this chapter, the signature of an attorney or party constitutes a certificate by him that he has read the pleading, motion, or other paper; that to the best of his knowledge, information, and belief formed after reasonable inquiry it is well-grounded in fact and is warranted by existing law or a good faith argument for the extension, modification, or reversal of existing law, and that it is not interposed for any improper purpose, such as to harass or to cause unnecessary delay or needless increase in the cost of litigation. If a pleading, motion, or other paper is not signed, it shall be stricken unless it is signed promptly after the omission is called to the attention of the pleader or movant. If a pleading, motion, or other paper is signed in violation of this rule, the court, upon motion or upon its own initiative, shall impose upon the person who signed it, a represented party, or both, an appropriate sanction, which may include an order to pay the other party or parties the amount of the reasonable expenses incurred because of the filing of the pleading, motion, or other paper, including a reasonable attorney's fee.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-9-370 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 9 / Article 3 / Section 15-9-370
SECTION 15-9-370. Service on nonresident motor vehicle drivers and motor carriers.
Status: in_force

Service of process upon the Director of the Department of Motor Vehicles, as agent of a: (a) nonresident driver under the provisions of Section 15-9-350; (b) resident driver who subsequently becomes a nonresident; (c) nonresident motor carrier under the provisions of Section 15-9-360; or (d) nonresident unregulated motor carriers engaged in transporting persons, hauling farm or dairy products, hauling any other perishable products or haulers of lumber or logs, shall be made by leaving a copy thereof, with an appropriate fee, in the hands of the Director of the Department of Motor Vehicles or his office and such service shall be sufficient service upon the nonresident if notice of the service and a copy of the process are forthwith sent by certified mail by the plaintiff or the Director of the Department of Motor Vehicles to the defendant and the defendant's return receipt and the plaintiff's affidavit of compliance herewith are appended to the summons or other process and filed with the summons, complaint, and other papers in the cause. The Director of the Department of Motor Vehicles shall keep a record of all processes which shall show the day and hour of service upon him. When the certified return receipt shall be returned to the Director of the Department of Motor Vehicles, he shall deliver it to the plaintiff on request and keep a record showing the date of its receipt by him and its delivery to the plaintiff. Editor's Note 2003 Act No. 51, SECTION 18 directed the Code Commissioner to substitute "Department of Motor Vehicles" for "Department of Public Safety".
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-79-130 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 79 / Section 15-79-130
SECTION 15-79-130. Report to licensing entity of expert testimony or evidence offered in bad faith or without reasonable basis.
Status: in_force

If a judge finds that an expert health care provider or health care institution in a medical malpractice action in this State has offered testimony or evidence in bad faith or without a reasonable basis in fact or otherwise acted unethically in conjunction with testifying as an expert in deposition or at trial, the judge must report the expert to the state entity that licenses and regulates the profession of the expert or the type of health care entity represented by the expert.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-5-110 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 5 / Article 1 / Section 15-5-110
SECTION 15-5-110. Executors' or administrators' actions against trespassers.
Status: in_force

Executors or administrators in cases of trespass done to their decedents, as of the goods and chattels of the decedents carried away in their life, shall have an action against the trespassers and may recover their damages in like manner as they, whose executors or administrators they are, should have had it if they were alive.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-39-40 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 39 / Article 1 / Section 15-39-40
SECTION 15-39-40. Counties to which execution may be issued.
Status: in_force

When the execution is against the property of the judgment debtor it may be issued to the sheriff of any county in which the judgment is docketed by the clerk of court in which the judgment was originally entered up or by the clerk of court of any county in which the judgment is docketed or transcribed. When it requires the delivery of real or personal property it must be issued to the sheriff of the county in which the property or some part thereof is situated. Executions may be issued at the same time to different counties.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-39-880 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 39 / Article 5 / Section 15-39-880
SECTION 15-39-880. Certain liens extinguished by sale when lien creditor is a party to proceeding.
Status: in_force

No lien created by operation of law or agreement of the parties whether of record or authorized by law to be entered of record in any office of any clerk of court or register of mesne conveyance in this State or any transcript, extension, renewal or revival thereof shall constitute a lien or attach or reattach as a lien on real property of the lien debtor or real property in which the lien debtor has an interest after a public sale of such real property at any execution or judicial sale in any action or special proceeding to which the lien creditor is duly made a party as provided by law. But this section and SECTION 15-39-890 shall not be construed to affect any prior mortgage lien not foreclosed in any such action or special proceeding and shall not be construed to require the foreclosure of any such prior mortgage lien. And this section and SECTION 15-39-890 shall not apply to tax execution sales.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-48-150 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 48 / Section 15-48-150
SECTION 15-48-150. Judgment or decree on award.
Status: in_force

Upon the granting of an order confirming, modifying or correcting an award, judgment or decree shall be entered in conformity therewith and be enforced as any other judgment or decree. Costs of the application and of the proceedings subsequent thereto, and disbursements may be awarded by the court.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-51-42 — SC Code / Title 15 / Chapter 51 / Article 1 / Section 15-51-42
SECTION 15-51-42. Approval of settlements of wrongful death or survival actions.
Status: in_force

(A) Only a duly appointed personal representative, as defined in Section 62-1-201(30), shall have the authority to settle wrongful death or survival actions. (B) If no action is pending, the personal representative shall petition either the probate or the circuit court of this State seeking approval of a proposed settlement. The petition must be verified by the personal representative and shall set forth, in terms satisfactory to the court in which the petition is filed, the basic facts surrounding the death of the decedent, the pertinent facts surrounding the liability of the alleged wrongdoer, the amount of insurance available to pay for damages, the terms of the proposed settlement, the statutory beneficiaries of the wrongful death or survival action, the heirs at law or appropriate devisees of the estate, the appropriate creditors, the amount of their claims, and, if the personal representative has retained legal counsel, the terms and provisions of the agreement with respect to attorney's fees and costs. It is not necessary that a personal representative be represented by legal counsel for the court to consider the petition and approve the settlement. If the personal representative is represented by legal counsel, the counsel shall sign a certificate attesting to the fact that he is of the opinion that the settlement is fair and reasonable and in the best interests of the statutory beneficiaries and, in a survival action, the estate of the decedent. The court shall schedule a hearing and receive into evidence those facts that the court considers necessary and proper to evaluate the settlement. After conducting this inquiry, the court shall issue its order either approving or disapproving the proposed settlement. If the settlement is approved by the court, the personal representative has the power to conclude the settlement, including the execution of those documents as the settlement terms contemplate. (C) If a wrongful death or survival action has been filed in state court and: (1) the settlement agreement between the parties is reached before the matters reach trial, the personal representative shall petition the court in which the wrongful death or survival action has been filed and follow the procedure for settlement as provided in (B) above; (2) the settlement agreement is reached during the trial, or after trial but before notice of appeal is filed, of either the wrongful death or survival action, then no petition is necessary, and the court shall conduct a hearing, at which the parties may present to the court the pertinent facts and information, including that information required in subsection (B) above, which the court may require in order to consider whether to approve or disapprove the settlement. If the court finds the settlement is fair and reasonable and in the best interests of the statutory beneficiaries and, in a survival action, the estate of the decedent, then the court shall issue its order approving the settlement; (3) the settlement agreement is reached after notice of appeal is filed, the personal representative shall petition the appellate court before which the matter is pending to remand the case to the circuit court for consideration of the settlement agreement in accordance with the procedure outlined in (2) above. (D) For any actions pending in the federal courts, the same procedure may be followed, but the federal court, at its discretion, may issue an order transferring the case to state court for consideration of the proposed settlement. (E) Once a settlement agreement has been approved by an appropriate court, the person paying the settlement proceeds and all those on whose behalf the payment is made and any other persons who could be responsible because of the actions on whose behalf the settlement proceeds are being paid, are relieved and discharged from further liability and shall have no obligation or legal duty to see to the appropriate or proper distribution of the settlement proceeds among either the wrongful-death beneficiaries or those entitled to the proceeds of the settlement of the survival action. Once payment has been made to the personal representative, the obligations of the person making the payment and those on whose behalf the payment is being made, and all those who could be responsible for the actions of these persons, are fully and completely released and finally and forever discharged from any further responsibility in connection with the action or actions. (F) Any person bringing a wrongful death or survival action in a court other than the probate court must notify the probate court of this action within ten days after the filing of the action. The provisions of this subsection apply to wrongful death or survival actions filed after the effective date of this section. (G) When the administration of an estate is final except for the administration of survival action proceeds because of the pendency of a survival action brought on behalf of the estate, the probate court may issue, upon petition by the personal representative, a special order providing that no accountings are required until the survival action is settled or verdict rendered in a trial. The attorney for the personal representative must notify the probate court immediately upon completion of the survival action and furnish the court with a copy of the order approving settlement or a copy of the judgment, whichever is appropriate.