Provisions contained in any title, part, or chapter of the code of laws enacted by § 2-16-13 may be construed and considered in the light of such arrangement and such position in any case where such arrangement or such position tends to show the intended purpose and effect thereof.
S.D. Codified Laws § 2-14-11
Arrangement of laws in code
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Cullum v. Mutual of Omaha Insurance (1988)
Most recently applied in Brown v. Youth Services International of South Dakota, Inc. (March 2000)
Source: SDC 1939, § 65.0202 (5).
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.