An authority expressed in general terms, however broad, does not authorize an agent to do any act that a trustee is forbidden to do by the law on trusts or that an agent is forbidden to do by the law on fiduciary access to digital assets.
S.D. Codified Laws § 59-3-11
Exceptions to general authority--Forbidden acts
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Hein v. Zoss (2016)
Most recently applied in Hein v. Zoss (October 2016)
Source: CivC 1877, § 1361, subdiv 3; CL 1887, § 3984, subdiv 3; RCivC 1903, § 1680, subdiv 3; RC 1919, § 1262 (3); SDC 1939, § 3.0205 (3); SL 2017, ch 209, § 28.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.