Whenever the meaning of a word or phrase is defined in any statute such definition is applicable to the same word or phrase wherever it occurs except where a contrary intention plainly appears.
S.D. Codified Laws § 2-14-4
Application of statutory definitions
Applied in 25 court decisions — leading case Taggart v. Ford Motor Credit Co. (1990)
Most recently applied in Paulsen v. Avera McKennan (July 2025)
Source: SDC 1939, § 65.0202 (8).
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.