Every person has, subject to the limitations provided by law, the right of protection from bodily harm or restraint, from personal insult, from defamation, and from injury to his personal relations, and every person is bound, without contract, to abstain from injuring any such rights of others and to abstain from injuring the person or property of another.
S.D. Codified Laws § 20-9-6
Right to protection from bodily harm, insult, or injury to personal relations
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Hunt v. Hunt (1981)
Most recently applied in Hunt v. Hunt (August 1981)
Source: CivC 1877, §§ 27, 973; CL 1887, §§ 2526, 3597; RCivC 1903, §§ 27, 1291; RC 1919, §§ 93, 795; SDC 1939, § 47.0301.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.