The South Carolina court map.

The trial floor — THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

"The State is divided into sixteen judicial circuits" (S.C. Code § 14-5-610) — 16 circuits, 46 counties by the statute's own compositions. The magistrate room holds the $7,500 line three ways; probate has its own lane; and "the circuit court (including masters-in-equity), family court or probate court from which the appeal is taken" — the referred-equity bench is inside circuit court by the appellate rules' own definition.

the six theaters, each in the corpus's words

Above the trial floor

The Court of Appeals' jurisdiction line is loaded: "the court has jurisdiction over any case in which an appeal is taken from an order, judgment, or decree of the circuit court, family court" (S.C. Code § 14-8-200, read whole for the limitations). The Supreme Court sits atop the structure — and its rulemaking runs on the 90-day silence mechanism. The appeal clock is LOADED here: the shield quotes it whole.

The sixteen circuits, composed in statute

Compositions parsed from the loaded unit's own text — § 14-5-610.

The federal rim

The District of South Carolina's Local Civil Rules are loaded as one book: FED-LR-SCD. The Fourth Circuit book lives with North Carolina — one corpus, one copy.