Return; how made if magistrate is out of office.
S.C. Code Ann. § 18-7-70
in effectWhen a magistrate by whom a judgment appealed from was rendered shall have gone out of office before a return is ordered, he shall, nevertheless, make a return in the same manner and with the like effect as if he were still in office.
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