Except as provided in § 43-13-6.1, a servitude on a servient tenement may not be held by the owner of the servient tenement. A servitude is extinguished by the vesting of the right to servitude and the right to the servient tenement in the same person.
S.D. Codified Laws § 43-13-6
Owner of servient tenement cannot hold servitude--Extinguishment of servitude
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Hofmeister v. Sparks (2003)
Most recently applied in Hofmeister v. Sparks (April 2003)
Source: CivC 1877, §§ 248, 254, subdiv 1; CL 1887, §§ 2764, 2770, subdiv 1; RCivC 1903, §§ 271, 277, subdiv 1; RC 1919, §§ 341, 347 (1); SDC 1939, §§ 51.0604, 51.0609 (1); SL 20…
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