2011 South Dakota Code
Title 21 JUDICIAL REMEDIES
Chapter 03. Damages For Torts
§21-3-6 Treble damages for forcible exclusion from real property.


SD Codified L § 21-3-6 (through 2011) What's This?

21-3-6. Treble damages for forcible exclusion from real property. For forcibly ejecting or excluding a person from the possession of real property, the measure of damages is three times such a sum as would compensate for the detriment caused to him by the act complained of.

Source: CivC 1877, § 1977; CL 1887, § 4610; RCivC 1903, § 2322; RC 1919, § 1994; SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § 37.1907.

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