South Carolina
South Carolina: statutes read at the official source for people acting for themselves, each with its citation and the date it was read.
Acting for yourself
SECTION 40-5-310. Practicing law or soliciting legal cause of another without being enrolled…
S.C. Code § 40-5-310 · scstatehouse.gov · read 2026-08-20 · official source
Renting and landlord-tenant
security deposit, return deadline
Any deduction from the security/rental deposit must be itemized by the landlord in a written notice to the tenant together with the amount due, if any, within thirty days after termination of the tenancy and delivery of possession and demand by the tenant
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-40-410(a) · read 2026-08-21 · official source
Not verified for South Carolina: Month-to-month notice (§ 27-40-770), the 5-day nonpayment notice (§ 27-40-710) and the self-help ban (§ 27-40-660) are in the retrieved chapter file but were not transcribed in this pass.
Small claims
The court that hears these in South Carolina is the Magistrates court.
$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.
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;
S.C. Code Ann. § 22-3-10(1)-(2) · read 2026-08-21 · official source
South Carolina publishes its own self-help pages
Not verified: Attorney representation not read.; Whether South Carolina has a distinct lower-value 'small claims' track inside magistrates court was NOT determined; only § 22-3-10's general concurrent civil jurisdiction was read.
What this page is, and is not
Everything above was read at the source named next to it, on the date named next to it. Nothing is summarised from memory and nothing is carried over from a neighbouring state. Statutes are amended, so read the source before relying on it.
This is general legal information about South Carolina. It is not advice about your situation, and it is not a substitute for the advice of an attorney.