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2011 South Dakota Code
Title 21 JUDICIAL REMEDIES
Chapter 41. Actions To Quiet Title To Real Property
§21-41-25 Relief from default judgment--Rights of good faith purchaser preserved.
SD Codified L § 21-41-25 (through 2011) What's This?
21-41-25. Relief from default judgment--Rights of good faith purchaser preserved. The court may, in its discretion and upon such terms as may be just, at any time within two years after the entry of judgment, relieve a defendant in such action from the judgment, if taken against him through his mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect, and allow such party to defend the action, but the defense, if successful, shall be without prejudice to the rights of a purchaser or encumbrancer in good faith of the premises from the plaintiff after the entry of such judgment, and before the making of the order permitting such defendant to defend.
Source: SL 1903, ch 194, § 9; SL 1905, ch 81; RC 1919, § 2855; SDC 1939, § 37.1514; SL 1943, ch 138.
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