South Dakota Codified Laws 16-6-9. Original civil jurisdiction of circuit court
The circuit court has original jurisdiction as follows:
(1) In all actions or proceedings in chancery;
Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 16-6-9
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Probate: Proving a will
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
- Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
(2) In all actions at law and in equity;
(3) In all cases where the title or boundary to real property comes in question;
(4) In all actions for divorce or annulment of marriage;
(5) In all matters of probate, guardianship, conservatorship, and settlement of estates of deceased persons;
(6) Proceedings relating to minors under chapters 26-7A, 26-8A, 26-8B, and 26-8C;
(7) In all other cases now or hereafter provided by law granting jurisdiction to the circuit court, and as heretofore granted to district county, municipal, justice of the peace, and police magistrate courts.
Source: CCivP 1877, § 28; CL 1887, § 4825; RCCivP 1903, § 30; RC 1919, § 2114; SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § 32.0904; SL 1973, ch 130, § 2; SL 1993, ch 213, § 94.