Rule 73.Procedure on appeal to Supreme Court or Court of Appeals

Rule 73 hands off the entire mechanics of an appeal to a different set of rules altogether. Once a final judgment or appealable order exists under Rule 72, everything about how the appeal is conducted — notices, briefing, timing, format — falls under the South Carolina Appellate Court Rules rather than anything found in the Rules of Civil Procedure.

That separation reflects how the rulemaking authority itself is organized: the circuit court rules that once addressed appeal procedure were deleted and moved up to the Supreme Court level, and later folded into the appellate court rules specifically. Rule 73 points there rather than duplicating or reproducing that procedure inside the civil rules, which keeps one body of rules responsible for trial-level practice and a separate one responsible for appellate practice.

For a litigant, the practical takeaway is not to look to the civil rules for guidance on how to prosecute an appeal. Rule 72 confirms that the right to appeal exists; Rule 73 sends you to the Appellate Court Rules for everything about how to exercise it.