Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 2 > Chapter 13 - Code Commissioner and Committee On Statutory Laws

• Account: means any deposit or credit account with a bank, including a demand, time, savings, passbook, share draft, or like account, other than an account evidenced by a certificate of deposit;
  
  (2) "Afternoon" means the period of a day between noon and midnight;
  
  (3) "Banking day" means the part of a day on which a bank is open to the public for carrying on substantially all of its banking functions;
  
  (4) "Clearing house" means an association of banks or other payors regularly clearing items;
  
  (5) "Customer" means a person having an account with a bank or for whom a bank has agreed to collect items, including a bank that maintains an account at another bank;
  
  (6) "Documentary draft" means a draft to be presented for acceptance or payment if specified documents, certificated securities (§ 36-8-102) or instructions for uncertificated securities (§ 36-8-102), or other certificates, statements, or the like are to be received by the drawee or other payor before acceptance or payment of the draft;
  
  (7) "Draft" means a draft as defined in § 36-3-104 or an item, other than an instrument, that is an order;
  
  (8) "Drawee" means a person ordered in a draft to make payment;
  
  (9) "Item" means an instrument or a promise or order to pay money handled by a bank for collection or payment. See South Carolina Code 36-4-104
• Adjudicated as a mental defective: means a determination by a court of competent jurisdiction that a person, as a result of marked subnormal intelligence, mental illness, mental incompetency, mental condition, or mental disease:
  
  (a) is a danger to himself or to others; or
  
  (b) lacks the mental capacity to contract or manage the person's own affairs. See South Carolina Code 23-31-1010
• Administrative monitoring: means a form of monitoring by the department beyond the end of the term of supervision in which the only remaining condition of supervision not completed is the payment of financial obligations. See South Carolina Code 24-21-5
• Advance fee: means any consideration which is assessed or collected, prior to the closing of a loan, by a loan broker. See South Carolina Code 34-36-10
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Amount of the loan: shall mean the cash advance plus other authorized charges. See South Carolina Code 34-29-10
• Annual percentage rate: The cost of credit at a yearly rate. It is calculated in a standard way, taking the average compound interest rate over the term of the loan so borrowers can compare loans. Lenders are required by law to disclose a card account's APR. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Antique firearm: means any firearm not designed or redesigned for using rim fire or conventional center fire ignition with fixed ammunition and manufactured in or before 1898 (including any matchlock, flintlock, percussion cap, or similar type of ignition system or replica thereof, whether actually manufactured before or after the year 1898) and also any firearm using fixed ammunition manufactured in or before 1898, for which ammunition is no longer manufactured in the United States and is not readily available in the ordinary channels of commercial trade. See South Carolina Code 23-31-310
• Approved electronic monitoring device: means a device approved by the department which is primarily intended to record and transmit information as to the defendant's presence or nonpresence in the home. See South Carolina Code 24-13-1520
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• bank: as used in this title must be construed to include all institutions doing any kind of banking business whose deposits are eligible for insurance by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, excluding a savings bank, and "building and loan association" as used in this title must be construed to include a mutual or stock savings association, savings and loan association, or savings bank and all other institutions doing any kind of building and loan business whose deposits are eligible for insurance by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation. See South Carolina Code 34-1-10
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
• Beneficiary form: means a registration of a security which indicates the present owner of the security and the intention of the owner regarding the person who will become the owner of the security upon the death of the owner. See South Carolina Code 35-6-10
• Board: shall mean the State Board of Bank Control and its duly authorized deputies. See South Carolina Code 34-29-10
• Board: means the State Board of Financial Institutions. See South Carolina Code 34-39-120
• Board: means the State Board of Financial Institutions. See South Carolina Code 34-41-10
• Borrower: means a person obtaining or desiring to obtain a loan of money, a credit card, or a line of credit. See South Carolina Code 34-36-10
• Buyer: means a person who buys or contracts to buy goods. See South Carolina Code 36-2-103
• Capital offense: A crime punishable by death.
• Case law: The law as laid down in cases that have been decided in the decisions of the courts.
• Cash advance: shall mean the amount of cash or its equivalent that the borrower actually receives or is paid out at his direction or on his behalf. See South Carolina Code 34-29-10
• Cashing: means providing currency for payment instruments but does not include the bona fide sale or exchange of travelers checks and foreign denomination payment instruments. See South Carolina Code 34-41-10
• Check: means a check signed by the maker and made payable to a person licensed pursuant to this chapter. See South Carolina Code 34-39-120
• Commercial unit: means such a unit of goods as by commercial usage is a single whole for purposes of lease and division of which materially impairs its character or value on the market or in use. See South Carolina Code 36-2A-103
• Committed to a mental institution: means a formal commitment of a person to a mental institution by a court of competent jurisdiction. See South Carolina Code 23-31-1010
• Community development corporation: means a nonprofit corporation which:
  
  (a) is chartered pursuant to Chapter 31 of Title 33;
  
  (b) is tax exempt pursuant to Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended;
  
  (c) has a primary mission of developing and improving low-income communities and neighborhoods through economic and related development;
  
  (d) has activities and decisions initiated, managed, and controlled by the constituents of those local communities;
  
  (e) has a primary function of developing projects and activities designed to enhance the economic opportunities of the people in the community served, including efforts to enable them to become owners and managers of small businesses and producers of affordable housing and jobs in the community served;
  
  (f) does not provide credit, capital, or other assistance from public funds in an amount greater than twenty-five thousand dollars at one time or in one transaction. See South Carolina Code 34-43-20
• Community development financial institution: means an organization that:
  
  (a) has a primary mission of promoting community development by providing credit, capital, or development services to small businesses or home mortgage assistance to individuals including, but not limited to, capital access programs, microlending, franchise financing, and guaranty performance bonds;
  
  (b) maintains, through representation on its governing board, accountability to persons in need of the institution's services;
  
  (c) is not an agent or instrumentality of the United States, or of a state or political subdivision of a state nor maintains an affiliate relationship with any of them;
  
  (d) maintains a goal of providing a majority of its services to low-income individuals, minorities, females, or rural areas;
  
  (e) provides capital and technical assistance to small and micro businesses or mortgage assistance to individuals;
  
  (f) does not provide credit, capital, or other assistance in an amount greater than two hundred fifty thousand dollars at one time or in one transaction. See South Carolina Code 34-43-20
• Concealable weapon: means a firearm having a length of less than twelve inches measured along its greatest dimension that may be carried openly on one's person or in a manner that is hidden from public view in normal wear of clothing except when needed for self defense, defense of others, and the protection of real or personal property. See South Carolina Code 23-31-210
• Consumer lease: means a lease that a lessor regularly engaged in the business of leasing or selling makes to a lessee who is an individual and who takes under the lease primarily for a personal, family, or household purpose, if the total payments to be made under the lease contract, excluding payments for options to renew or buy, do not exceed twenty-five thousand dollars. See South Carolina Code 36-2A-103
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract for sale: includes both a present sale of goods and a contract to sell goods at a future time. See South Carolina Code 36-2-106
• Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.
• Court: means a circuit, family, magistrate's, or municipal court having criminal or juvenile jurisdiction to sentence an individual to incarceration for a violation of law, the Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services, the Board of Juvenile Parole, and the Department of Corrections. See South Carolina Code 24-13-1520
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Defense attorney: Represent defendants in criminal matters.
• Deferred presentment services: means a transaction pursuant to a written agreement involving the following combination of activities in exchange for a fee:
  
  (a) accepting a check dated on the date it was written; and
  
  (b) holding the check for a period of time before presentment for payment or deposit. See South Carolina Code 34-39-120
• Department: means the Department of Consumer Affairs. See South Carolina Code 34-36-10
• Department: means the South Carolina Department of Commerce. See South Carolina Code 34-43-20
• Department: means the Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services. See South Carolina Code 24-21-5
• Department: means , in the case of a juvenile offender, the Department of Juvenile Justice and, in the case of an adult offender, the Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services, the Department of Corrections, and any other law enforcement agency created by law. See South Carolina Code 24-13-1520
• Depositor: means an individual member or customer of a financial institution who:
  
  (a) maintains a qualifying account at a financial institution participating in a savings promotion contest;
  
  (b) is in good standing at a financial institution authorized to do business in South Carolina; and
  
  (c) is eighteen years of age or older. See South Carolina Code 34-45-20
• Director: means the Director of the Department of Corrections. See South Carolina Code 24-13-1310
• Embezzlement: In most states, embezzlement is defined as theft/larceny of assets (money or property) by a person in a position of trust or responsibility over those assets. Embezzlement typically occurs in the employment and corporate settings. ^{Source: OCC}
• Emergency: shall mean actual or threatened enemy attack, sabotage, conflagration, flood, storm, epidemic, earthquake, riot, or other public calamity. See South Carolina Code 25-1-430
• Emergency preparedness: shall mean the extraordinary actions of government in preparing for and carrying out all functions and operations, other than those for which the military is primarily responsible, when concerted, coordinated action by several agencies or departments of government and private sector organizations are required to prevent, minimize, and repair injury and damage resulting from a disaster of any origin. See South Carolina Code 25-1-430
• Entry: means a chance or chances obtained by a depositor to win a designated prize or prizes in a savings promotion contest by complying with the terms and conditions of a savings promotion contest. See South Carolina Code 34-45-20
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Extradition: The formal process of delivering an accused or convicted person from authorities in one state to authorities in another state.
• Facility: means a fueling station or a fuel cell site that will store or dispense hydrogen for use as a transportation fuel and motor vehicle fuel or in a fuel cell. See South Carolina Code 23-9-530
• Fault: means wrongful act, omission, breach, or default. See South Carolina Code 36-2A-103
• Federal Reserve System: The central bank of the United States. The Fed, as it is commonly called, regulates the U.S. monetary and financial system. The Federal Reserve System is composed of a central governmental agency in Washington, D.C. (the Board of Governors) and twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks in major cities throughout the United States. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Finance lease: means a lease with respect to which:
  
  (i) the lessor does not select, manufacture, or supply the goods;
  
  (ii) the lessor acquires the goods or the right to possession and use of the goods in connection with the lease; and
  
  (iii) one of the following occurs:
  
  (A) the lessee receives a copy of the contract by which the lessor acquired the goods or the right to possession and use of the goods before signing the lease contract;
  
  (B) the lessee's approval of the contract by which the lessor acquired the goods or the right to possession and use of the goods is a condition to effectiveness of the lease contract;
  
  (C) the lessee, before signing the lease contract, receives an accurate and complete statement designating the promises and warranties, and any disclaimers of warranties, limitations or modifications of remedies, or liquidated damages, including those of a third party, such as the manufacturer of the goods, provided to the lessor by the person supplying the goods in connection with or as part of the contract by which the lessor acquired the goods or the right to possession and use of the goods; or
  
  (D) if the lease is not a consumer lease, the lessor, before the lessee signs the lease contract, informs the lessee in writing (i) of the identity of the person supplying the goods to the lessor, unless the lessee has selected that person and directed the lessor to acquire the goods or the right to possession and use of the goods from that person, (ii) that the lessee is entitled under this chapter to the promises and warranties, including those of any third party, provided to the lessor by the person supplying the goods in connection with or as part of the contract by which the lessor acquired the goods or the right to possession and use of the goods, and (iii) that the lessee may communicate with the person supplying the goods to the lessor and receive an accurate and complete statement of those promises and warranties, including any disclaimers and limitations of them or of remedies. See South Carolina Code 36-2A-103
• Financial institution: means a bank, a savings institution, or a credit union authorized to do business in South Carolina under federal or state law. See South Carolina Code 34-45-20
• Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fuel cell: means an appliance that uses fuel to produce electricity through an electro-chemical process. See South Carolina Code 23-9-530
• Fueling station: means a facility that dispenses gasoline, hydrogen, or other fuels intended to be used in motor vehicles. See South Carolina Code 23-9-530
• Goods: means all things that are movable at the time of identification to the lease contract, or are fixtures (§ 36-2A-309), but the term does not include money, documents, instruments, accounts, chattel paper, general intangibles, or minerals or the like, including oil and gas, before extraction. See South Carolina Code 36-2A-103
• Habeas corpus: A writ that is usually used to bring a prisoner before the court to determine the legality of his imprisonment. It may also be used to bring a person in custody before the court to give testimony, or to be prosecuted.
• Hearing officer: means an employee of the department who conducts preliminary hearings to determine probable cause on alleged violations committed by an individual under the supervision of the department and as otherwise provided by law. See South Carolina Code 24-21-5
• Heirs: means those persons, including the surviving spouse, who are entitled under the laws of intestate succession to the property of a decedent. See South Carolina Code 35-6-10
• Impeachment: (1) The process of calling something into question, as in "impeaching the testimony of a witness." (2) The constitutional process whereby the House of Representatives may "impeach" (accuse of misconduct) high officers of the federal government for trial in the Senate.
• Installment lease contract: means a lease contract that authorizes or requires the delivery of goods in separate lots to be separately accepted, even though the lease contract contains a clause 'each delivery is a separate lease' or its equivalent. See South Carolina Code 36-2A-103
• Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
• Joint resolution: A legislative measure which requires the approval of both chambers.
• Lease: means a transfer of the right to possession and use of goods for a term in return for consideration, but a sale, including a sale on approval or a sale or return, or retention or creation of a security interest is not a lease. See South Carolina Code 36-2A-103
• Lease agreement: means the bargain, with respect to the lease, of the lessor and the lessee in fact as found in their language or by implication from other circumstances including course of dealing or usage of trade or course of performance as provided in this chapter. See South Carolina Code 36-2A-103
• Lease contract: means the total legal obligation that results from the lease agreement as affected by this chapter and any other applicable rules of law. See South Carolina Code 36-2A-103
• Leasehold interest: means the interest of the lessor or the lessee under a lease contract. See South Carolina Code 36-2A-103
• Legal tender: coins, dollar bills, or other currency issued by a government as official money. ^{Source: U.S. Mint}
• Lessee: means a person who acquires the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See South Carolina Code 36-2A-103
• Lessor: means a person who transfers the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See South Carolina Code 36-2A-103
• Level II check-cashing service: means any person or entity engaged in the business of cashing checks, drafts, or money orders for a fee, service charge, or other consideration. See South Carolina Code 34-41-10
• License: shall mean the privilege certificate issued by the Board under the authority of this chapter to conduct the business regulated by this chapter. See South Carolina Code 34-29-10
• Licensee: shall mean a person to whom one or more licenses have been issued. See South Carolina Code 34-29-10
• Licensee: means a person licensed to provide deferred presentment services pursuant to this chapter. See South Carolina Code 34-39-120
• Licensee: means a person or entity licensed to engage in either a Level I or Level II check-cashing service pursuant to this chapter. See South Carolina Code 34-41-10
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Lien: means a charge against or interest in goods to secure payment of a debt or performance of an obligation, but the term does not include a security interest. See South Carolina Code 36-2A-103
• Loan broker: means any person who:
  
  (a) for or in expectation of consideration arranges or attempts to arrange or offers to fund a loan of money, a credit card, or a line of credit;
  
  (b) for or in expectation of consideration assists or advises a borrower in obtaining or attempting to obtain a loan of money, a credit card, a line of credit, or related guarantee, enhancement, or collateral of any kind or nature;
  
  (c) acts for or on behalf of a loan broker for the purpose of soliciting borrowers; or
  
  (d) holds himself out as a loan broker. See South Carolina Code 34-36-10
• Location: means the entire space in which deferred presentment services are provided. See South Carolina Code 34-39-120
• Lot: means a parcel or a single article that is the subject matter of a separate lease or delivery, whether or not it is sufficient to perform the lease contract. See South Carolina Code 36-2A-103
• Mental institution: includes mental health facilities, mental hospitals, sanitariums, psychiatric facilities, and other facilities that provide diagnoses by licensed professionals of mental retardation or mental illness, including a psychiatric ward in a general hospital. See South Carolina Code 23-31-1010
• Merchant lessee: means a lessee that is a merchant with respect to goods of the kind subject to the lease. See South Carolina Code 36-2A-103
• National Bank: A bank that is subject to the supervision of the Comptroller of the Currency. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department. A national bank can be recognized because it must have "national" or "national association" in its name. ^{Source: OCC}
• National Credit Union Administration: The federal regulatory agency that charters and supervises federal credit unions. (NCUA also administers the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund, which insures the deposits of federal credit unions.) ^{Source: OCC}
• Organized militia: refers to both the National Guard and the organized militia not in National Guard service. See South Carolina Code 25-1-10
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Pardon: means that an individual is fully pardoned from all the legal consequences of his crime and of his conviction, direct and collateral, including the punishment, whether of imprisonment, pecuniary penalty or whatever else the law has provided. See South Carolina Code 24-21-940
• Participant: means an inmate/offender placed into an electronic monitoring program or into some other suitable program which provides supervision and/or monitoring in the community. See South Carolina Code 24-13-1520
• Participating financial institution: means a financial institution authorized to do business in South Carolina that is sponsoring a savings promotion contest. See South Carolina Code 34-45-20
• Person: shall mean an individual, partnership, association, corporation and all other legal and commercial entities. See South Carolina Code 34-29-10
• Person: means an individual, group of individuals, partnership, association, corporation, or other business unit or legal entity. See South Carolina Code 34-39-120
• Person: means an individual, partnership, association, or corporation. See South Carolina Code 34-41-10
• Person: means an individual, a corporation, an organization, or other legal entity. See South Carolina Code 35-6-10
• person: includes an individual, his executor, administrator or other personal representative, or a corporation, partnership, association or any other legal or commercial entity, whether or not a citizen or domiciliary of this State and whether or not organized under the laws of this State. See South Carolina Code 36-2-801
• Personal representative: includes a personal representative, administrator, or other person who performs substantially the same functions by law. See South Carolina Code 35-6-10
• Picture identification: means :
  
  (a) a valid driver's license or photographic identification card issued by the state in which the applicant resides; or
  
  (b) an official photographic identification card issued by the Department of Revenue, a federal or state law enforcement agency, an agency of the United States Department of Defense, or the United States Department of State. See South Carolina Code 23-31-210
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
• Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
• Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• Preliminary hearing: A hearing where the judge decides whether there is enough evidence to make the defendant have a trial.
• present sale: means a sale which is accomplished by the making of the contract. See South Carolina Code 36-2-106
• Present value: means the amount as of a date certain of one or more sums payable in the future, discounted to the date certain. See South Carolina Code 36-2A-103
• Principal: means any officer, director, partner, joint venturer, branch manager, or other person with similar managerial or supervisory responsibilities for a loan broker. See South Carolina Code 34-36-10
• Pro se: A Latin term meaning "on one's own behalf"; in courts, it refers to persons who present their own cases without lawyers.
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Proof of training: means an original document or certified copy of the document supplied by an applicant that certifies that he is either:
  
  (a) a person who, within three years before filing an application, successfully has completed a basic or advanced handgun education course offered by a state, county, or municipal law enforcement agency or a nationally recognized organization that promotes gun safety. See South Carolina Code 23-31-210
• Public defender: Represent defendants who can't afford an attorney in criminal matters.
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Purchase: includes taking by sale, lease, mortgage, security interest, pledge, gift, or any other voluntary transaction creating an interest in goods. See South Carolina Code 36-2A-103
• Qualified nonresident: means an individual who owns real property in South Carolina, but who resides in another state. See South Carolina Code 23-31-210
• Qualifying account: means :
  
  (a) a savings account or other savings product or program offered by a participating financial institution into which deposits may be made by a depositor;
  
  (b) the account is evidenced by periodic statements that are delivered to the depositor or are available to the depositor through electronic access; and
  
  (c) the interest rate for the qualifying account is similar to, and not less than, the interest rates of other comparable nonqualifying accounts. See South Carolina Code 34-45-20
• Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business.
• Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
• Resident: means an individual who is present in South Carolina with the intention of making a permanent home in South Carolina or military personnel on permanent change of station orders. See South Carolina Code 23-31-210
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• Rifle: means a weapon designed or redesigned, made or remade, and intended to be fired from the shoulder and designed or redesigned and made or remade to use the energy of the explosive in a fixed cartridge to fire only a single projectile through a rifled bore for each single pull of the trigger. See South Carolina Code 23-31-310
• Right of survivorship: The ownership rights that result in the acquisition of title to property by reason of having survived other co-owners.
• Savings promotion contest: means a contest or promotion sponsored by a financial institution or a group of financial institutions in which a chance of winning designated prizes is obtained by a depositor when the depositor:
  
  (a) deposits a specified amount of money or makes a specified number of deposits into the depositor's qualifying account; or
  
  (b) participates in one or more savings products or programs. See South Carolina Code 34-45-20
• Sawed-off rifle: means a rifle having a barrel or barrels of less than sixteen inches in length or a weapon made from a rifle which as modified has an overall length of less than twenty-six inches or a barrel or barrels of less than sixteen inches in length. See South Carolina Code 23-31-310
• Sawed-off shotgun: means a shotgun having a barrel or barrels of less than eighteen inches in length or a weapon made from a shotgun which as modified has an overall length of less than twenty-six inches or a barrel or barrels of less than eighteen inches in length. See South Carolina Code 23-31-310
• Security: means and is defined as provided in § 35-1-102(29) and as a security account. See South Carolina Code 35-6-10
• Security account: means :
  
  (a) a reinvestment account associated with a security; a securities account with a broker; a cash balance in a brokerage account, cash, interest earnings, or dividends earned or declared on a security in an account; a reinvestment account, or a brokerage account, whether or not credited to the account before the owner's death; or
  
  (b) a cash balance or other property held for or due to the owner of a security as a replacement for or product of an account security, whether or not credited to the account before the owner's death. See South Carolina Code 35-6-10
• Seller: means a person who sells or contracts to sell goods. See South Carolina Code 36-2-103
• Serious bodily injury: means a physical condition which creates a substantial risk of death, serious personal disfigurement, or protracted loss or impairment of the function of a bodily member or organ. See South Carolina Code 23-31-400
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Shock incarceration program: means a program pursuant to which eligible inmates are ordered by the court to participate in the program and serve ninety days in an incarceration facility, which provides rigorous physical activity, intensive regimentation, and discipline and rehabilitation therapy and programming. See South Carolina Code 24-13-1310
• Shotgun: means a weapon designed or redesigned, made or remade, and intended to be fired from the shoulder and designed or redesigned and made or remade to use the energy of the explosive in a fixed shotgun shell to fire through a smooth bore either a number of ball shot or a single projectile for each pull of the trigger. See South Carolina Code 23-31-310
• Sole ownership: The type of property ownership in which one individual holds legal title to the property and has full control of it.
• State: includes any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and any territory or possession subject to the legislative authority of the United States. See South Carolina Code 35-6-10
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
• Sublease: means a lease of goods the right to possession and use of which was acquired by the lessor as a lessee under an existing lease. See South Carolina Code 36-2A-103
• Subpoena duces tecum: A command to a witness to produce documents.
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Supplier: means a person from whom a lessor buys or leases goods to be leased under a finance lease. See South Carolina Code 36-2A-103
• Supply contract: means a contract under which a lessor buys or leases goods to be leased. See South Carolina Code 36-2A-103
• Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}
• Use a firearm: means to discharge a firearm. See South Carolina Code 23-31-400
• Usury: Charging an illegally high interest rate on a loan. ^{Source: OCC}
• Variable Rate: Having a "variable" rate means that the APR changes from time to time based on fluctuations in an external rate, normally the Prime Rate. This external rate is known as the "index." If the index changes, the variable rate normally changes. Also see Fixed Rate.
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.