S.C. Code Ann. § 15-17-520: Issues on exceptions to clerk's rulings shall be summarily heard by judge.

In case exceptions be taken to any order or ruling of the clerk while discharging the duties imposed by this article, the issues therein may be summarily heard and tried by the judge of the circuit or by any circuit judge then holding the courts in such circuit or, if there be no judge within such circuit, by any other circuit judge named in the notice for such hearing.