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South Carolina · Through 2025 Session of the General Assembly

S.C. Code Ann. § 16-3-420: Carrying or delivering challenge; serving as second.

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  1. Title 16 - CRIMES AND OFFENSES
  2. CHAPTER 3 Offenses Against the Person
  3. ARTICLE 5 Dueling

Whoever shall (a) willingly or knowingly carry or deliver any such challenge in writing or verbally deliver any message intended as, or purporting to be, such a challenge, (b) be present at the fighting of any duel as a second or (c) aid or give countenance thereto shall, for every such offense, on conviction thereof, be forever disabled from holding any office of honor or trust in this State and shall be imprisoned in the Penitentiary for a term not exceeding two years, at the discretion of the court, and shall be fined in a sum not less than five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars.

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