The object of a contract is the thing which it is agreed, on the part of the party receiving the consideration, to do or not to do.
S.D. Codified Laws § 53-5-1
Object of contract defined
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Talley v. Talley (1997)
Most recently applied in Hanna v. Landsman (June 2020)
Source: CivC 1877, § 901; CL 1887, § 3525; RCivC 1903, § 1219; RC 1919, § 834; SDC 1939, § 10.0401.
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.