{"data":{"id":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-14-5-180","jurisdiction":"us-sc","citation":"S.C. Code Ann. § 14-5-180","heading":"Assignment of disengaged circuit judge or appointment of special judge when docket is overcrowded.","body":"Whenever the time fixed for holding any of the courts of general sessions or common pleas of this State shall be found not sufficient for the trial of all cases before the court, a like assignment of a disengaged circuit judge or commission of a special judge may be had to hold the court to which the judge then holding such overcrowded court may have been in due course next assigned and the term of such overcrowded court shall proceed until the cases before it are disposed of.","path":["Title 14 - COURTS","CHAPTER 5 Circuit Courts","ARTICLE 3 Judges and Special Judges"],"source_url":"https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t14c005.php","current_through":"2025 Session of the General Assembly","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T06:39:19Z","sha256":"08ff6c3ab1854b4fd011fef4fab2859ad7e6e4ff35cd497cb6993b97464b9281","source_id":"us-sc","stale":false,"prev":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-14-5-170","next":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-14-5-190"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}