How much can I sue for in small claims court in South Carolina?
Answered for: South Carolina
Magistrates have concurrent civil jurisdiction in the following cases: (1) in actions arising on contracts for the recovery of money only, if the sum claimed does not exceed seven thousand five hundred dollars; (2) in actions for damages for injury to rights pertaining to the person or personal or real property, if the damages claimed do not exceed seven thousand five hundred dollars;
The statute sets the small claims limit at $7,500, The $7,500 ceiling recurs across each head of concurrent civil jurisdiction in § 22-3-10 (contract, personal/property injury, penalties, attachment, bonds, confessed judgment, fraud in sale of personalty, recovery of personal property). Source is the Code of Laws Unannotated on the state legislature's site.. That figure is the one the section states; the words above are the section itself.
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