South Carolina · statute · S.C. Code tit. 12, ch. 61 · 6 active provisions
Any county of this State, the forfeited land commission or other similar authority of any such county, any person or the executors, administrators, successors, assigns or grantees thereof, which has purchased at or acquired through a tax sale and obtained title to any real or personal property, may bring an action in t…
Such action shall be commenced, conducted and concluded by decree as are similar actions in such court and there may be made defendants to the action the former owner of such property, his heirs, executors, administrators, successors or assigns and any other person or legal entity who has or claims any right, title, cl…
The proceeding authorized in this chapter shall be subject to the rules and laws governing the procedure and conduct of similar proceedings, including the laws governing service of process and the publication thereof against absent or unknown defendants.
In any decree or judgment of the court in an action brought by the county, the forfeited land commission or other similar authority wherein it may be found that a person has a superior title to that of the county, the forfeited land commission or other similar authority, the judgment in favor of such person shall be up…
Whenever an action shall be brought under the provisions of this chapter relating to property for which the plaintiff paid less than the sum of one thousand dollars, all costs due shall be only one half of those ordinarily allowed.
This chapter shall be liberally construed to the end that it shall afford a complete remedy to any plaintiff claiming property by forfeiture unto him for nonpayment of taxes or by acquisition at or through a tax sale, so that he can under this chapter obtain a final and complete adjudication of the nature and extent of…