South Carolina · statute · S.C. Code tit. 27, ch. 11 · 7 active provisions
The State shall not be precluded by possession, grant, conveyance or any other cause or title from making inquest and sale of all such lands as have heretofore escheated to the State by the death of the person last seized thereof, any law, custom or usage to the contrary notwithstanding. But no lands claimed under gran…
All persons who are now possessed of or hold any messuages, lands, tenements or hereditaments whatsoever in this State by and under any original patents, grants or deeds, indented or poll, either made by the former lords proprietors or by their palatine, or his deputy, and any three or more of the lords proprietors, or…
Such patents, grants and deeds, indented or poll, shall be held valid notwithstanding: (1) Any misnomer or omission of the names of any of the lords proprietors or their deputies, any want of significant and necessary words in law for conveying of such lands, any omission, commission or mistake whatsoever in such grant…
All such patents, grants, indentures and deeds and all other patents, grants, indentures and deeds from the proprietors, their governors, deputies, commissioners or trustees, when any lands have been so meted or ascertained, or returned as aforesaid, and the assignments thereof, are hereby ratified and confirmed, for a…
Nothing herein contained shall extend or be construed to alter or abridge the Right Honorable John Lord Carteret, his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, or the lords proprietors or their heirs of any estate, right, title or interest whatsoever which have or has been saved and reserved unto said John Lord Cart…
No grant, deed of feoffment, deed or bargain and sale, deed of gift or other conveyance of any lands or tenements whatsoever made prior to August 20, 1731 shall be impeached or set aside in any court of law or equity for want of attornment or of livery and seizin or enrollment thereof or because such conveyance has bee…
An actual peaceable and quiet possession of lands five years previous to July 4, 1776 shall be deemed a good and sufficient title and any grant obtained since that time, or which may be obtained, for such land is hereby declared null and void.