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South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 16 - COURTS AND JUDICIARY
Chapter 18 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF ATTORNEYS
Section 16-18-14 - Attorney's duty to respect reputation of parties and witnesses

S.D. Codified Laws § 16-18-14

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Section 16-18-14 - Attorney's duty to respect reputation of parties and witnesses

It is the duty of an attorney and counselor at law to abstain from all offensive personalities and to advance no fact prejudicial to the honor or reputation of a party or witness unless required by the justice of the cause with which he is charged.

SDCL 16-18-14

PolC 1877, ch 18, § 4, subdiv 5; CL 1887, § 465, subdiv 5; RPolC 1903, § 697, subdiv 5; RC 1919, § 5262 (5); Supreme Court Rule 13, 1939; SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § 32.1201 (5).