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2012 South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 19 EVIDENCE
Chapter 16. Hearsay
§19-16-23 (Rule 803(19)) Reputation as to personal history or family relationship admissible.


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19-16-23. (Rule 803(19)) Reputation as to personal history or family relationship admissible. Reputation among members of his family by blood, adoption, or marriage, or among his associates, or in the community, concerning a person's birth, adoption, marriage, divorce, death, legitimacy, relationship by blood, adoption, or marriage, ancestry, or other similar fact of his personal or family history, is not excluded by § 19-16-4, even though the declarant is available as a witness.

Source: Supreme Court Rule 78-2, Rule 803 (19).

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