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Chapter 1 - General Provisions
Section 19-1-10. Rules of construction. - The rule of common law, that statutes in derogation of...
Section 19-1-20. "Clerk" defined. - The word "clerk," as used in this title, signifies unless...
Section 19-1-30. Pleading shall not be evidence against accused. - No pleading can be used in a criminal prosecution against...
Section 19-1-60. Request for admission of authenticity of documents and other papers. - Either party to a civil action may exhibit to the...
Section 19-1-70. Proof of negligence by plaintiff in certain motor vehicle cases. - The provisions of Chapter 5, Title 56 declaring prima facie...
Section 19-1-80. Conditions on examination of witness in criminal proceeding concerning written statement made to public employee. - No witness in any preliminary hearing or in any criminal...
Section 19-1-90. Admissibility in criminal proceeding of written statement made to public employee. - Unless the provisions of Sections 8-15-50 and 19-1-80 have been...
Section 19-1-100. No statement shall be used for impeachment in civil proceeding unless copy furnished when signed. - No statement taken from and signed by a witness or...
Section 19-1-110. Introduction of certain instruments or copies issued by common carriers. - It shall be competent (a) to introduce in evidence as...
Section 19-1-120. Proving signature of absent witness to bond or note; effect of sworn denial of signature. - The absence of a witness to any bond or note...
Section 19-1-130. Situations in which notary's protest is sufficient evidence. - Whenever a notary public who may have made protest for...
Section 19-1-140. Use of testimony in subsequent trials when witness is in armed forces. - In all civil causes pending in the courts of this...
Section 19-1-150. Life expectancy tables. - When necessary, in a civil action or other litigation, to...
Section 19-1-160. Nonsealed instruments may be considered as sealed. - Whenever it shall appear from the attestation clause or from...
Section 19-1-180. Out-of-court statements by certain children. - (A) An out-of-court statement made by a child who is...
Section 19-1-190. South Carolina Unanticipated Medical Outcome Reconciliation Act; legislative purpose; definitions; inadmissibility of certain statements; waiver of inadmissibility; impact of South Carolina Rules of Evidence. - (A) This section may be cited as the "South Carolina...
Chapter 3 - Proof Of Ordinances And Laws
Section 19-3-10. Proof of ordinances of municipalities. - In all the courts held in this State the printed...
Section 19-3-110. Short title. - This article may be cited as the "Uniform Judicial Notice...
Section 19-3-120. Judicial notice of laws of other United States jurisdictions. - Every court of this State shall take judicial notice of...
Section 19-3-130. Means by which court may inform itself of other United States laws. - The court may inform itself of such laws in such...
Section 19-3-140. Court shall determine other United States laws. - The determination of such laws shall be made by the...
Section 19-3-150. Parties also may present evidence of other United States laws; notice. - Any party may also present to the trial court any...
Section 19-3-160. Proof of laws of other jurisdictions. - The law of a jurisdiction other than those referred to...
Section 19-3-170. No evidence of foreign law shall be received or noticed judicially unless pleaded. - No foreign law shall be received in evidence nor shall...
Section 19-3-180. Rule of construction. - This article shall be so interpreted and construed as to...
Chapter 5 - Public Documents, Records And Books
Section 19-5-10. Admissibility of certified copies or certified photostatic copies of documents. - When the original of any instrument, document or other paper...
Section 19-5-20. Notice required under Section 19-5-10. - In case of possession of such paper by any adverse...
Section 19-5-30. Admissibility of photostatic or certified copies of certain motor vehicle records. - Photostatic, optical disk, or certified copies of motor vehicle registration...
Section 19-5-40. Admissibility of certified photographic copy of instrument or record pertaining to business or government when original is lost or destroyed. - Any certified or authenticated photographic copy of any instrument or...
Section 19-5-50. Evidence of appointment of executors or administrators. - The judge of probate, on application by the executor or...
Section 19-5-60. Production of instruments required to be recorded as evidence of execution and recording. - The production, without further or other proof, of the original...
Section 19-5-70. Applicability of foregoing section when fraud is alleged. - The provisions of Section 19-5-60 shall not apply when any...
Section 19-5-210. Admissibility of certified copies of grants issued by North Carolina. - It shall be lawful, in every court of this State,...
Section 19-5-220. Proof of various instruments. - All exemplifications of records, all deeds and bonds or other...
Section 19-5-230. Foreign evidences of debt shall be admissible only on basis of reciprocity. - No testimonial, probate, certificate or other instrument under the seal...
Section 19-5-310. Effect of finding of presumed death under Federal Missing Persons Act. - A written finding of presumed death made by the Secretary...
Section 19-5-320. Effect of report that person is missing, besieged, captured by the enemy or the like. - An official written report or record, or duly certified copy...
Section 19-5-330. Signature of reports or copies shall prima facie be deemed authorized. - For the purposes of Sections 19-5-310 and 19-5-320 any finding,...
Section 19-5-510. Uniform Business Records as Evidence Act. - The term "business" shall include every kind of business, profession,...
Section 19-5-520. Certified business records. - In addition to those matters provided by Rule 902, South...
Section 19-5-610. Uniform Photographic Copies of Business and Public Records as Evidence Act. - If any business, institution, member of a profession or calling,...
Chapter 7 - Compelling Attendance Of Witnesses
Section 19-7-50. Means by which prisoners shall be brought into court as witnesses. - Whenever it shall be necessary to bring any prisoner into...
Section 19-7-60. Process to compel attendance of criminal defendant's witnesses; sanctions for disobedience. - In all criminal prosecutions the accused shall have compulsory process...
Chapter 9 - Uniform Act To Secure The Attendance Of Witnesses From Without A State In Criminal Proceedings
Section 19-9-10. Short title. - This chapter may be cited as "Uniform Act to Secure...
Section 19-9-20. Definitions. - "Witnesses" as used in this chapter shall include a person...
Section 19-9-30. Holding of hearing when resident is wanted as witness in another state. - If a judge of a court of record in any...
Section 19-9-40. Ordering resident witness to attend out-of-state proceedings. - If at a hearing the judge determines that the witness...
Section 19-9-50. Delivery of witness to custody of officer of requesting state. - If said certificate recommends that the witness be taken into...
Section 19-9-60. Penalty for failure to attend as witness out of state. - If the witness who is summoned as provided in Section...
Section 19-9-70. Request by this State for witness from reciprocating state. - If a person in any state which by its laws...
Section 19-9-80. Costs and fees paid to nonresident witness. - If the witness is summoned to attend and testify in...
Section 19-9-90. Limit on time nonresident witness may be kept in State. - A witness who has appeared in accordance with the provisions...
Section 19-9-100. Penalty for failure to attend as witness in this State. - If such witness after coming into this State fails without...
Section 19-9-110. Nonresident witness shall not be subject to arrest or service of process. - If a person comes into this State in obedience to...
Section 19-9-120. Witnesses passing through State shall not be subject to arrest or service of process. - If a person passes through this State while going to...
Section 19-9-130. Rule of construction. - This chapter shall be so interpreted and construed as to...
Chapter 11 - Competency Of Witnesses
Section 19-11-20. "Dead man's" statute. - Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 19-11-10, no party to an...
Section 19-11-30. Competency of husband or wife of party as witness. - In any trial or inquiry in any suit, action, or...
Section 19-11-50. Testimony of defendant in criminal cases. - The testimony of a defendant in a criminal case shall...
Section 19-11-80. Privilege against self-incrimination. - No person shall be required to answer any question tending...
Section 19-11-90. Priest-penitent privilege. - In any legal or quasi-legal trial, hearing or proceeding before...
Section 19-11-95. Confidences of patients of mental illness or emotional conditions. - (A) For purposes of this section: (1) "Provider" means a...
Section 19-11-100. Qualified privilege against disclosure for news media; waiver. - (A) A person, company, or entity engaged in or that...
Chapter 21 - Perpetuation Of Evidence
Section 19-21-10. Substituting new records for lost, destroyed, or abstracted records of decrees and judgments. - The plaintiff in any judgment or decree, the record whereof...
Section 19-21-20. Perpetuation of testimony as to lost, destroyed, or defective instruments. - Any person interested in the preservation of the contents of...
Section 19-21-30. Issuance of orders in action to perpetuate testimony. - The court or judge at chambers having jurisdiction of the...
Section 19-21-40. Recordation and force and effect of perpetuated testimony. - The evidence so taken shall be preserved, and the parties...
Section 19-21-50. Proof of lost papers other than by perpetuation of testimony. - Nothing herein contained shall prevent anyone from establishing on the...
Section 19-21-60. Costs. - The costs of such proceedings as shall be had under...