2013 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 15 - Civil Remedies and Procedures
CHAPTER 39 - EXECUTIONS AND JUDICIAL SALES GENERALLY
SECTION 15-39-740. Deposits by bidders.


SC Code § 15-39-740 (2013) What's This?

In no decree of sale or order thereunder shall there be a requirement for a deposit of cash or other guaranty of good faith prior to the conclusion of the bidding at any judicial sale of real estate, and such deposit or guaranty as may be required at the conclusion of the bidding and of any person who thereafter raises the bid within the period mentioned in Sections 15-39-720 and 15-39-730 shall be five per cent of the bid or some lesser percentage thereof.

HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 10-1772; 1952 Code Section 10-1772; 1942 Code Section 9078-1; 1932 (37) 1529; 1933 (38) 511; 1934 (38) 1187, 1266, 1346, 1620; 1936 (39) 1294; 1939 (41) 202.

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