Conditions are precedent or subsequent. The former fix the beginning, the latter the ending of the right.

Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 43-3-2

  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.

Source: CivC 1877, § 197; CL 1887, § 2713; RCivC 1903, § 220; RC 1919, § 290; SDC 1939, § 51.0224.