Rives v. Bulsa

How courts have described this case

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• holding all requirements of law leading up to tax sales which are intended for the protection of the taxpayer against surprise or the sacrifice of his property are to be regarded as mandatory and are to be strictly enforced
• affirming the Master's order invalidating the tax sale because the public records reflected the names of the correct owners
• “Due process of law requires some sort of notice to a landowner before he is deprived of his property.”
• \Due process of law requires some sort of notice to a landowner before he is deprived of his property.\
• \South Carolina appellate courts have consistently held the enforcing agencies of government to strict compliance with all the legal requirements surrounding tax sales.\
• \Failure to give the required notice is a fundamental defect in the tax proceedings which renders the proceedings absolutely void.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).