A contract is an agreement to do or not to do a certain thing.
S.D. Codified Laws § 53-1-1
Contract defined
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case Weitzel v. Sioux Valley Heart Partners (2006)
Most recently applied in Baker v. Masco Builder Cabinet Group, Inc. (December 2012)
Source: CivC 1877, § 870; CL 1887, § 3494; RCivC 1903, § 1188; RC 1919, § 803; SDC 1939, § 10.0101.
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.