2014 South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 53 - CONTRACTS
Chapter 04 - Duress, Fraud, Undue Influence And Mistake
§ 53-4-9 Mistake of fact defined.
53-4-9. Mistake of fact defined. Mistake of fact is a mistake not caused by the neglect of a legal duty on the part of the person making the mistake and consisting in:
(1) An unconscious ignorance or forgetfulness of a fact, past or present, material to the contract; or
(2) Belief in the present existence of a thing material to the contract which does not exist, or in the past existence of such a thing which has not existed.
Source: CivC 1877, § 888; CL 1887, § 3512; RCivC 1903, § 1206; RC 1919, § 821; SDC 1939, § 10.0312.
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