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Terms Used In South Carolina Code 15-35-840

  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • real estate: as used in this Title are coextensive with lands, tenements and hereditaments. See South Carolina Code 15-1-30
Every judgment creditor who enters a judgment in any court of record in this State and does not at the same time enter as part thereof the appointment of an agent upon whom process may be served in any action or proceeding affecting any real estate upon which the judgment may at any time constitute a lien shall be deemed thereby to have constituted the attorney of record making the entry of such judgment as the agent of such judgment creditor and of his successor in interest for the purpose of accepting service of or being served with process in any such action.