South Carolina § 27-31-40 - Apartments may be purchased, owned, and the like.
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§ 27-31-40. Apartments may be purchased, owned, and the like.
Once the property is submitted to the horizontal property regime, an apartment in the property may be individually conveyed and encumbered and may be the subject of ownership, possession or sale and of all types of juridic acts inter vivos or mortis causa, as if it were sole and entirely independent of the other apartments in the property of which it forms a part, and the corresponding individual titles and interests shall be recordable.
HISTORY: 1962 Code SECTION 57-497; 1962 (52) 1866; 1967 (55) 449.
Source: official South Carolina text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 27-31-40 ("Apartments may be purchased, owned, and the like.") is part of the South Carolina Code of Laws, the codified statutory law of South Carolina. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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