Section 27-29-10 - Short title; definitionsThis chapter may be cited as the "Uniform Land Sales Practice Act" and, when used herein, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Disposition" includes sale, lease, assignment, award by lottery, or any other transaction concerning a subdivision, if undertaken for gain or profit;(2) "Offer" includes any inducement, solicitation or attempt to encourage a person to acquire an interest in land, if undertaken for gain or profit;(3) "Person" means an individual, corporation, government, or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, unincorporated association, two or more of any of the foregoing having a joint or common interest, or any other legal or commercial entity;(4) "Purchaser" means a person who acquires or attempts to acquire or succeeds to an interest in land;(5) "Subdivider" means any owner of subdivided land who offers it for disposition or the principal agent of an inactive owner;(6) "Subdivision" and "subdivided lands" means any land situated outside the State of South Carolina which is divided or is proposed to be divided for the purpose of disposition into twenty-five or more lots, parcels, units or interests and also includes any land whether contiguous or not if twenty-five or more lots, parcels, units, or interests are offered as a part of a common promotional plan of advertising and sale.1968 (55) 3052; 1962 Code Section 57-551.