Abduction, enticement and seduction forbidden by rights of personal relation
Applied in 9 court decisions — leading case Veeder v. Kennedy (1999)
Most recently applied in Cedar v. Johnson (November 2018)
Source: SDC 1939, § 47.0302; SL 2002, ch 97, § 1.
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.
The rights of personal relation forbid:
(1) The abduction or enticement of a husband from his wife or of a parent from a child;
(2) The abduction or enticement of a wife from her husband, of a child from a parent, or from a guardian entitled to its custody;
(3) The seduction of a wife, daughter, or orphan sister;
(4) The seduction of a husband, son, or orphan brother.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.