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South Carolina · S.C. Code § 16-11-690
Quote checked October 14, 2026 Text match only; current legal status and enforcement not verified.
“Any person being entrusted with any boat, flat or tools for gathering phosphate rock by the owner thereof for the purpose of mining or gathering phosphate rock who shall fail to return the same to the owner within two days after being required by such owner so to do shall be guilty of a misdemeanor”
“It shall be a complete defense to any indictment or prosecution instituted under this section if the defendant shall make it appear that his failure to return the property was due to his inability so to return the same, such inability not being the result of the defendant's act, or that the agreed time in which such property was to be returned had not expired at the time of his failure to return the same.”
“shall be fined in the sum of not more than fifty dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days, in the discretion of the court.”
“HISTORY: 1962 Code SECTION 16-393; 1952 Code SECTION 16-393; 1942 Code SECTION 1205; 1932 Code SECTION 1205; Cr. C. '22 SECTION 93; Cr. C. '12 SECTION 254; Cr. C. '02 SECTION 195; 1900 (23) 445.”
The earliest year in this note is 1900. That's the earliest year the note prints. It doesn't establish when this wording was enacted, took effect or first appeared.
Our reading
Someone trusted with a boat, a flat or tools for gathering phosphate rock has two days to hand them back once the owner asks. Missing that deadline is a misdemeanor, though it's a complete defense if the person couldn't return the property for reasons that weren't their own doing, or if the agreed lending period hadn't run out.
Written by Silly Rules from the quoted text above. It's a plain reading, not legal advice. We haven't researched how courts read this section or how often anyone enforces it.
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