No entry upon real estate shall be deemed sufficient or valid as a claim unless an action be commenced thereupon within one year after the making of such entry, and within twenty years from the time when the right to make such entry descended or accrued.
S.D. Codified Laws § 15-3-3
Limitation of actions based on entry on real estate
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Rotenberger v. Burghduff (2007)
Most recently applied in Swaby v. Northern Hills Regional Railroad Authority (July 2009)
Source: SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § 33.0219.
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.