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Video South Carolina Code of Laws



Record of Law in the Colonial Period

The English Royal Charter of March 1663 that handed the eight Lords' Proprietors of Carolina the land composing of modern-day North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia spurred an actual colonizing expedition and the drafting of a founding constitution. In 1670 Proprietor Lord Anthony Ashley Cooper and famed philosopher John Locke combined to realize the first revised colonial constitution accepted by the body Proprietorship. The importance to legal history of this first constitution is that it actually banned legal practice as a profession and sought to simplify legal dictates so that under educated nobles could run the colony effectively. The 1670 constitution banned legal commentary and established eight administrative courts whose aristocratic members composed part of a Grand Council that would prepare legislation produced in the colony's parliament. The journal of the Grand Council would, due to that body's power, become the first legislative record of the Carolina colony but also contains judicial rulings and executive actions undertaken due to the Council's fiat. Chief Justice Nicholas Trott compiled the first comprehensive record of parliamentary statutes in 1712 which covered all the preceding years from 1682, with the majority being English common law statutes that could still apply in a vastly different environment. The collection of South Carolina colonial and state laws released by Judge John Grimke in 1790 includes the record from before Trott's time in office up until the formation of the United States.


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Record of Law between Independence and the American Civil War

The next compendium of South Carolina law would be gathered and edited by legal reformer Dr. Thomas Cooper. Cooper acted under a resolution passed by the General Assembly in December 1834 to "compile under his direction the statute law of the state, now of force". Cooper commented of his task,

"I am required to compile an edition of the Statute Law of South-Carolina: Is it to be an imperfect and mutilated edition of our public Law, or one that will answer the description of the 'Statutes at Large'? I have preferred the latter: because, it is better to insert somewhat too much than somewhat too little: because, the reasons for a present law, are often derived from, and the law itself elucidated by, the imperfections it is meant to supersede -".

Cooper died before the fifth volume went to the publisher leading to the appointment of Dr. David James Mccord by Governor Patrick Noble to finish the project. The tenth and final volume, an index, was published in 1841. Legislative year books published by the General Assembly would continue to proliferate, covering the time period from Mccord's work through the American Civil War. Volumes in the format seen of The Statutes at Large would have to wait until after the massive upheaval of the 1860s, to be added for the collective educational benefit of South Carolina's legal community.


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Titles of the South Carolina Code of Laws 2016

Title 1 - Administration of the Government

Title 2- General Assembly

Title 3- U.S. Government, Agreements and Relations with

Title 4- Counties

Title 5- Municipal Corporations

Title 6- Local Government: Provisions Applicable to Special Purpose Districts and Other Political Subdivisions

Title 7- Elections

Title 8- Public Officers and Employees

Title 9- Retirement Systems

Title 10- Public Buildings and Property

Title 11- Public Finance

Title 12- Taxation

Title 13- Planning, Research and Development

Title 14- Courts

Title 15- Civil Remedies and Procedures

Title 16- Crimes and Offenses

Title 17- Criminal Procedures

Title 18- Appeals

Title 19- Evidence

Title 20- Domestic Relations

Title 21- Estates, Trusts, Fiduciaries

Title 22- Magistrates and Constables

Title 23- Law Enforcement and Public Safety

Title 24- Corrections, Jails, Probations, Paroles and Pardons

Title 25- Military, Civil Defense and Veteran Affairs

Title 26- Notaries Public and Acknowledgements

Title 27- Property and Conveyances

Title 28- Eminent Domain

Title 29- Mortgages and Other Liens

Title 30- Public Records

Title 31- Housing and Redevelopment

Title 32- Contracts and Agents

Title 33- Corporations, Partnerships, and Associations

Title 34- Banking, Financial Institutions, and Money

Title 35- Securities

Title 36- Commercial Code

Title 37- Consumer Protection Code

Title 38- Insurance

Title 39- Trade and Commerce

Title 40- Professions and Occupations

Title 41- Labor and Employment

Title 42- Workers' Compensation

Title 43- Social Services

Title 44- Health

Title 45- Hotels, Motels, Restaurants and Boardinghouses

Title 46- Agriculture

Title 47- Animals, Livestock and Poultry

Title 48- Environmental Protection and Conservation

Title 49- Waters, Water Resources and Drainage

Title 50- Fish, Game and Watercraft

Title 51- Parks, Recreation and Tourism

Title 52- Amusements and Athletic Contests

Title 53- Sundays, Holidays and Other Special Days

Title 54- Ports and Maritime Matters

Title 55- Aeronautics

Title 56- Motor Vehicles

Title 57- Highways, Bridges and Ferries

Title 58- Public Utilities, Services and Carriers

Title 59- Education

Title 60- Libraries, Archives, Museums and Arts

Title 61- Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages

Title 62- South Carolina Probate Code

Title 63- South Carolina Children's Code


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