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2021 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 15 - Civil Remedies and Procedures
Chapter 11 - Notice Of Lis Pendens
Section 15-11-50. Limitation of effect of notice; refiling.

Universal Citation:
SC Code § 15-11-50 (2021)
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When the summons is published or served as above provided the notice of the pendency of the action shall constitute notice for only five years from the date of the filing of such notice, and, in order to provide constructive notice to a purchaser or encumbrancer of the property affected thereby after such five-year period or any such period after a refiling, the notice shall be refiled within five years from the date of filing in the first instance and within five years from the date of any such refiling. In the event any such notice be refiled it shall be entered in the book provided therefor as required for the original entry, and the clerk shall note upon the record of the filing that it is a refiling of such notice and shall also note thereupon the date of the first entry and the book and page at which such notice is filed.

HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 10-505; 1952 Code Section 10-505; 1942 Code Section 432; 1932 Code Section 432; Civ. P. '22 Section 388; Civ. P. '12 Section 182; Civ. P. '02 Section 153; 1870 (14) 455 Section 155; 1930 (36) 1218; 1931 (37) 241; 1937 (40) 335.

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