Constructive notice is notice imputed by the law to a person not having actual notice.
S.D. Codified Laws § 17-1-3
Constructive notice
Applied in 14 court decisions — leading case Thurman v. Cuna Mutual Insurance Society (2013)
Most recently applied in Nelson v. Tinkcom (July 2025)
Source: CivC 1877, § 2108; CL 1887, § 4742; RCivC 1903, § 2451; RC 1919, § 14; SDC 1939, § 65.0503.
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.