South Dakota Codified Laws
Chapter 03 - Adverse Possession And Limitation Of Actions To Recover Real Estate
Section 15-3-3 - Limitation of actions based on entry on real estate.

15-3-3. Limitation of actions based on entry on real estate.
No entry upon real estate shall be deemed sufficient or valid as a claim unless an action be commenced thereupon within one year after the making of such entry, and within twenty years from the time when the right to make such entry descended or accrued.

Source: SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, ยง33.0219.

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South Dakota Codified Laws

Title 15 - Civil Procedure

Chapter 03 - Adverse Possession And Limitation Of Actions To Recover Real Estate

Section 15-3-1 - Seizin or possession within twenty years required for action to recover real property or possession.

Section 15-3-2 - Seizin or possession within twenty years required for cause of action or defense based on title to real property.

Section 15-3-3 - Limitation of actions based on entry on real estate.

Section 15-3-4 - Limitation of actions by state based on title to real property.

Section 15-3-5 - Grantee of state limited by limitations applicable to state.

Section 15-3-6 - Limitation of actions to recover real property after invalidation of state grant.

Section 15-3-7 - Possession of real property presumed from legal title--Occupation by another presumed subordinate to legal title.

Section 15-3-8 - Tenant's possession deemed that of landlord--Continuation after termination of tenancy.

Section 15-3-9 - Possessory right not impaired by descent on death of person in possession.

Section 15-3-10 - Twenty years' possession under written instrument or judgment deemed adverse possession--Tract divided into lots.

Section 15-3-11 - Acts constituting adverse possession based on written instrument or judgment.

Section 15-3-12 - Actual occupation required for adverse possession under claim other than written instrument or judgment.

Section 15-3-13 - Acts constituting adverse possession under claim other than written instrument or judgment.

Section 15-3-14 - Tolling of statute during disability--Time for commencement of action after removal of disability.

Section 15-3-15 - Vesting of title by possession and payment of taxes for ten years under color of title--Continuation of possession and tax payment by successor in interest.

Section 15-3-16 - Vesting of title to unoccupied land by payment of taxes for ten years under color of title--Continuation of tax payment by successor in interest.

Section 15-3-17 - Tax payment vesting provisions not applicable to public lands or religious or charitable societies.

Section 15-3-18 - Tax payment vesting provisions not applicable against person under disability--Time for commencement of action after removal of disability .

Section 15-3-19 - Time allowed for assertion of irregularities in notice involving real property--Persons under disability.

Section 15-3-20 - Partition fence agreement.

Section 15-3-21 - Real estate taxes following determination of adverse possession.

Section 15-3-22 - Existing utility lines not affected.