Law is a rule of property and of conduct prescribed by the sovereign power.
S.D. Codified Laws § 1-1-22
Law defined
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Hanson v. Brookings Hospital (1991)
Most recently applied in Dakotans for Health v. Barnett (May 2021)
Source: SDC 1939, § 65.0101.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.