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South Carolina · Through 2025 Session of the General Assembly

S.C. Code Ann. § 12-61-40: Judgment for defendant may be conditioned on payment of taxes.

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  1. Title 12 - TAXATION
  2. CHAPTER 61 Suits to Clear Tax Titles

In any decree or judgment of the court in an action brought by the county, the forfeited land commission or other similar authority wherein it may be found that a person has a superior title to that of the county, the forfeited land commission or other similar authority, the judgment in favor of such person shall be upon condition that the taxes and penalties thereupon on account of which the property was sold and all taxes which have accrued since such sale and the penalties thereupon be paid in full within sixty days after the date of such judgment and the court shall order the sale of the property in the manner of other judicial sales in default of such payment. From the proceeds of such sale such taxes, costs and penalties shall be first paid.

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