South Carolina — Palmetto
Six theaters — and the master-in-equity comes first.
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The statutory shape: The State is divided into sixteen judicial circuits (§ 14-5-610) — 16 circuits composed county by county, 46 counties summed from the compositions themselves, and the civil side is THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
THE MASTER-IN-EQUITY — the referred-equity bench (the star)
"the circuit court (including masters-in-equity), family court or probate court from which the appeal is taken"
- The appellate rules' own lower-court definition names masters-in-equity INSIDE circuit court — the referred bench is structural, not administrative.
- No sibling TrialVector state has this theater.
The Court of Common Pleas — the civil side, by its own name
"The State is divided into sixteen judicial circuits"
- Sixteen circuits composed county by county in the statute itself; forty-six counties summed from the compositions (the registry parses the loaded unit).
The magistrate room — $7,500, three ways
"Magistrates have concurrent civil jurisdiction"
- The statute's own enumeration caps contracts, personal/property damages, and penalties each at seven thousand five hundred dollars.
- The magistrate court runs its own loaded rulebook (SCRMC, 24 rules + the scope provision).
Court-annexed ADR — non-binding by scope
"This rule applies only to non-binding arbitrations"
- Binding arbitration lives under the Uniform Arbitration Act, outside the annexed rules — the scope line says so itself.
The probate lane
"The intestate share of the surviving spouse"
- Title 62 is loaded whole (542 sections); probate court also appears in the SCACR 202 lower-court definition.
The family lane — information only
"the circuit court (including masters-in-equity), family court or probate court"
- Family court is a named lower court; Title 63 (children) is loaded (774 sections). The lane is informational — judgment calls route to licensed South Carolina counsel.