2016 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 27 - Property and Conveyances
CHAPTER 39 - RENT
Section 27-39-310. Giving bond to free property from distraint.
Within five days after such distraint the tenant may free the property from the lien of the distraint by giving a bond payable to the landlord in double the amount claimed, with sufficient surety or sureties approved by the court, and the issues thus joined shall be tried by the court. The landlord shall have the right to except to the surety or sureties and the surety or sureties shall justify before the magistrate as provided for justification for sureties in claim and delivery actions.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 41-160; 1952 Code Section 41-160; 1946 (44) 2584.
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