South Carolina in the United States
Legal Materials
Links to the South Carolina constitution, statutory code and administrative code are posted by the South Carolina State Legislature. More links are posted by FindLaw and WashLaw. Primary legal materials are searchable on Lexis, Westlaw and LOIS. Google Scholar has free cases back to 1950; subscription sites Versuslaw and Fastcase also have cases back to 1950. Supreme and appellate court cases are reported in West’s South Eastern Reporter.
The South Carolina legislature posts an online Archives that includes Acts back to 1980 and Bills back to 1975.
The legislature also posts the South Carolina State Register. The past four years are available only by subscription; older issues are available free. The Register is searchable on Lexis (2000-present).
To check on the status of a pending bill, pull up the bill page through the legislature’s web site. For questions about pending legislation, call the Legislative Information Systems at 1-800-922-539 (in state) or 803-734-2060 (out of state).
West publishes South Carolina Jurisprudence (an encyclopedia of South Carolina law), and the South Carolina Bar publishes A Guide to South Carolina Legal Research and Citation.
For questions about South Carolina legal materials, copies and/or inter-library loan, try calling the University of South Carolina School of Law Library (803-777-5902) or the South Carolina State Library (803- 734-8026).
For document retrieval, Dash Courier and Logistics (888-755-3274) covers the major cities in North and South Carolina. They also make filings with the courts, land records and secretary of state offices.
Note: We linked the resources to archive.org in an effort to decrease the number of broken links cited.
Primary Law
For more U.S. state primary law resources, see:
- U.S. State Law: Constitutional
- U.S. State Law: Judicial Rules
- U.S. State Law: Codes
- U.S. State Legislative: Bills
- U.S. State Law: Executive & Administrative
- U.S. State Law: Municipal
Topics Covered by the South Carolina Legal Encyclopedia
Note: More detailed information about this State is provided in the South Carolina jurisdictional legal Encyclopedia, which tie together South Carolina statutory and case law.
Topics include:
- South Carolina Statutes
- SC Cases & Case Law
- South Carolina Legal Websites
- SC State Government Info
- South Carolina Counties
- South Carolina Cities
- South Carolina Legislation
- SC Court Reporters/Depositions
- South Carolina Legal Forms
- South Carolina Courts
- SC State Bar/Legal Associations
- South Carolina Law Enforcement
- South Carolina Media Sources
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