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South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 20 - PERSONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS
Chapter 9 - LIABILITY FOR TORTS
Section 20-9-6 - Right to protection from bodily harm, insult, or injury to personal relations

S.D. Codified Laws § 20-9-6

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Section 20-9-6 - Right to protection from bodily harm, insult, or injury to personal relations

Every person has, subject to the limitations provided by law, the right of protection from bodily harm or restraint, from personal insult, from defamation, and from injury to his personal relations, and every person is bound, without contract, to abstain from injuring any such rights of others and to abstain from injuring the person or property of another.

SDCL 20-9-6

CivC 1877, §§ 27, 973; CL 1887, §§ 2526, 3597; RCivC 1903, §§ 27, 1291; RC 1919, §§ 93, 795; SDC 1939, § 47.0301.