South Dakota Statutes

§ 43-16-2 — Coterminous owner--Right to lateral and subjacent support.

South Dakota·Title 43 PROPERTY·Ch. 43-16 LAND BOUNDARIES, MONUMENTS AND SUBSURFACE RIGHTS
Each coterminous owner is entitled to the lateral and subjacent support which his land receives from the adjoining land, subject to the right of the owner of the adjoining land to make proper and usual excavations on the same for purposes of construction, on using ordinary care and skill, and taking reasonable precautions to sustain the land of the other, and giving previous reasonable notice to the other of his intention to make such excavations.

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Related

Salmon v. Peterson
311 N.W.2d 205 (South Dakota Supreme Court, 1981)
4 case citations

Legislative History

CivC 1877, § 268; CL 1887, § 2784; RCivC 1903, § 291; RC 1919, § 361; SDC 1939, § 51.0702.

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