53-6-9. Impossibility of ascertaining consideration, effect.
Where a contract provides an exclusive method by which its consideration is to be ascertained, which method is on its face impossible of execution, the entire contract is void.
Source: CivC 1877, §913; CL 1887, §3537; RCivC 1903, §1231; RC 1919, §846; SDC 1939, §10.0505.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
Chapter 06 - Consideration For Contracts
Section 53-6-1 - Good consideration, acts constituting.
Section 53-6-2 - Legal or moral obligation as good consideration.
Section 53-6-3 - Instrument as evidence of consideration.
Section 53-6-4 - Burden of proof to invalidate sufficient consideration.
Section 53-6-5 - Lawful consideration required.
Section 53-6-6 - Illegality of consideration, effect.
Section 53-6-8 - Executory consideration--Determination of amount.
Section 53-6-9 - Impossibility of ascertaining consideration, effect.