South Carolina Code 61-2-210. Jurisdiction of magistrates court
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Terms Used In South Carolina Code 61-2-210
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Person: includes an individual, a trust, estate, partnership, limited liability company, receiver, association, company, corporation, or any other group. See South Carolina Code 61-2-100
- Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
When a person is charged by an agent or inspector of the division with a criminal offense for which a magistrate’s court has jurisdiction, the person charged, upon being served with the official summons issued by the agent or inspector, must appear before the proper judicial officer at the time and place stated in the summons. The service of the summons vests the court with jurisdiction to hear and dispose of the charge for which the summons was issued.