S.C. Code Ann. § 32-1-220
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SECTION 32-1-220. Contracts when actual delivery not contemplated.
Official statutory text
Any contract of sale for future delivery of cotton, grain, stocks or other commodities when it is not the bona fide intention of parties that the things mentioned therein are to be delivered but which is to be settled according to or upon the basis of the public market quotations or prices made on any board of trade, exchange or other similar institution, without any actual bona fide execution and the carrying out of such contract upon the floor of such exchange, board of trade or similar institution, in accordance with the rules thereof, shall be null and void and unenforceable in any court of this State and no action shall be maintainable thereon at the suit of any party.
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