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2012 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 15 - Civil Remedies and Procedures
Chapter 51 - DEATH BY WRONGFUL ACT AND LYNCHING
Section 15-51-210 - When county is liable for damages for lynching.
SC Code § 15-51-210 (2012) What's This?
In all cases of lynching when death ensues the county in which such lynching takes place shall, without regard to the conduct of the officers, be liable in exemplary damages of not less than two thousand dollars, to be recovered by action instituted in any court of competent jurisdiction by the legal representatives of the person lynched, and they are hereby authorized to institute such action for the recovery of such exemplary damages. A county against which a judgment has been obtained for damages in any case of lynching shall have the right to recover in any court of competent jurisdiction the amount of such judgment from the parties engaged in such lynching and is hereby authorized to institute such action.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 10-1961; 1952 Code Section 10-1961; 1942 Code Section 3041; 1932 Code Section 3041; Civ. C. '22 Section 5601; Civ. C. '12 Section 3947; Civ. C. '02 Section 2844; 1896 (22) 214.
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