South Dakota Codified Laws
Chapter 15 - Claim And Delivery Of Personal Property
Section 21-15-14 - Delivery of property to plaintiff if return not required by defendant.

21-15-14. Delivery of property to plaintiff if return not required by defendant.
If a return of the property be not required pursuant to §21-15-12 within three days after the taking and service of papers on defendant, it shall be delivered to the plaintiff unless claimed in the meantime by a third person in the manner provided by this chapter.

Source: CCivP 1877, §181; CL 1887, §4977; RCCivP 1903, §189; RC 1919, §2416; SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, §37.3806.

Structure South Dakota Codified Laws

South Dakota Codified Laws

Title 21 - Judicial Remedies

Chapter 15 - Claim And Delivery Of Personal Property

Section 21-15-1 - Claim of immediate delivery permitted in action for possession of personal property--Time of claim.

Section 21-15-2 - Contents of plaintiff's affidavit.

Section 21-15-3 - Order to defendant to show cause against delivery of property to plaintiff--Procedure in hearing.

Section 21-15-4 - Undertaking required of plaintiff--Contents--Waiver.

Section 21-15-5 - Cash in lieu of undertaking deposited with clerk or judge--Terms of deposit.

Section 21-15-6 - Seizure of property by sheriff--Safekeeping and delivery.

Section 21-15-7 - Seizure of property kept in building.

Section 21-15-8 - Papers served on defendant when property seized.

Section 21-15-9 - Defendant's exception to sufficiency of plaintiff's sureties--Failure to except as waiver.

Section 21-15-10 - Justification by plaintiff's sureties--Responsibility of sheriff--Exceptions waive right to retain property.

Section 21-15-10.1 - Notice of justification--Additional surety--Time and place of hearing.

Section 21-15-10.2 - Appearance and examination of sureties.

Section 21-15-10.3 - Allowance by judge--Effect.

Section 21-15-10.4 - Costs of justification.

Section 21-15-11 - Qualifications and justification of plaintiff's sureties.

Section 21-15-11.1 - Qualifications of bail.

Section 21-15-12 - Defendant's undertaking or deposit to retain possession--Terms.

Section 21-15-13 - Justification by defendant's sureties and delivery of property--Responsibility of sheriff--Delivery to plaintiff on failure to justify.

Section 21-15-14 - Delivery of property to plaintiff if return not required by defendant.

Section 21-15-15 - Notice to sheriff of third-party claim to property--Indemnity required of plaintiff.

Section 21-15-16 - Sheriff's report of proceedings--Papers attached--Contempt and amercement or civil action for failure or neglect.