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Terms Used In South Carolina Code 5-39-410

  • Bequest: Property gifted by will.
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
Any incorporated city in this State having a population of more than five thousand inhabitants and owning a cemetery may receive by gift, devise, bequest or settlement in trust any sum of money from any person when such sum is turned over to it in trust to be invested and the annual income used in maintaining, caring for or keeping in repair any tomb, burial lot, grave or graves as may be then or thereafter designated by the person creating such trust fund and agreed to by such city.