South Dakota Codified Laws
Chapter 42 - Things In Action
Section 43-42-4 - Accounts receivable--Transfer by assignment in good faith.

43-42-4. Accounts receivable--Transfer by assignment in good faith.
Every written assignment made in good faith, whether in the nature of a sale, pledge, or other transfer, of an account receivable or of an amount due or to become due on an open account or on a contract (all hereinafter called "account"), with or without the giving of notice of such assignment to the debtor, shall be valid, legal, and complete at the time of the making of such assignment, and shall be deemed to have been fully perfected at that time. Thereafter, no bona fide purchaser from the assignor, no creditor of any kind of the assignor, and no other assignee or transferee of the assignor, in any event shall have, or be deemed to have acquired, any right in the account so transferred or in the proceeds thereof or in any obligation substituted therefor, superior to the rights therein of the assignee.

Source: SDC 1939, ยง51.0803 as added by SL 1945, ch 213.

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Structure South Dakota Codified Laws

South Dakota Codified Laws

Title 43 - Property

Chapter 42 - Things In Action

Section 43-42-1 - Thing in action defined.

Section 43-42-2 - Transfer and survivorship--Violation of right of property or obligation.

Section 43-42-3 - Nonnegotiable contract--Transfer by endorsement.

Section 43-42-4 - Accounts receivable--Transfer by assignment in good faith.

Section 43-42-5 - Debtor unaware of assignment--Acquittance by good faith payment to assignor, creditor, subsequent purchaser, or other assignee or transferee.