2012 South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 15 CIVIL PROCEDURE
Chapter 03. Adverse Possession And Limitation Of Actions To Recover Real Estate
§15-3-11 Acts constituting adverse possession based on written instrument or judgment.


SD Codified L § 15-3-11 (through 2012) What's This?


15-3-11. Acts constituting adverse possession based on written instrument or judgment. For the purpose of constituting an adverse possession by any person claiming a title founded upon a written instrument, or a judgment, or a decree, land shall be deemed to have been possessed and occupied in the following cases:

(1) Where it has been usually cultivated or improved;

(2) Where it has been protected by a substantial inclosure;

(3) Where, although not inclosed, it has been used for the supply of fuel or of fencing timber for the purposes of husbandry, or the ordinary use of the occupant; or

(4) Where a known farm or a single lot has been partly improved, the portion of such farm or lot that may have been left not cleared or not inclosed according to the usual course and custom of the adjoining country shall be deemed to have been occupied for the same length of time as the part improved and cultivated.

Source: SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § 33.0222.

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