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2012 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 20 - Domestic Relations
Chapter 1 - MARRIAGE
Section 20-1-580 - Effect of establishment of official record of marriage and record thereof.
SC Code § 20-1-580 (2012) What's This?
The record herein permitted, when so established, shall be accepted by all the courts in this State as conclusive evidence of the marriage and shall be of the same force and effect as the records now required by law. The judge of probate or other officer whose duty it is to record and file such records shall purchase, out of county funds in his hands or by requisition upon the proper county official, a suitable book for the proper recording of marriages proved as provided in Section 20-1-570.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 20-48; 1952 Code Section 20-48; 1942 Code Section 8571-1; 1933 (38) 260.
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