Any benefit conferred or agreed to be conferred upon the promiser by any other person to which the promiser is not lawfully entitled, or any prejudice suffered or agreed to be suffered by such person, other than such as he is at the time of consent lawfully bound to suffer as an inducement to the promiser, is a good consideration for a promise.
S.D. Codified Laws § 53-6-1
Good consideration, acts constituting
Applied in 12 court decisions — leading case Garrett v. BankWest, Inc. (1990)
Most recently applied in Hanna v. Landsman (June 2020)
Source: CivC 1877, § 906; CL 1887, § 3530; RCivC 1903, § 1224; RC 1919, § 839; SDC 1939, § 10.0501.
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Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.