<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta charset="UTF-8" /><meta http-equiv='content-language' content='en-us'/><title>SDLRC - Codified Law 20-11-4 - Slander defined. </title><meta name="Generator" content="PowerTools for Open XML" /><style>span { white-space: pre-wrap; } p.s2045669Normal { text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } span.s2045669SENU { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2045669CL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2045669Normal-000000 { text-indent: 0.50in; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } span.s2045669DefaultParagraphFont { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2045669Normal-000001 { margin-left: 0.70in; text-indent: -0.45in; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } span.s2045669000002 { font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2045669SCL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2045669SCL-000003 { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } body { text-decoration-skip-ink: none; } </style></head><body><div><p dir="ltr" class="s2045669Normal"><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=20-11-4"><span class="s2045669SENU">20-11-4</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2045669SENU">. </span><span class="s2045669CL">Slander defined.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2045669Normal-000000"><span class="s2045669DefaultParagraphFont">Slander is a false and unprivileged publication, other than libel, which:</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2045669Normal-000001"><span class="s2045669DefaultParagraphFont">(1)    Charges any person with crime, or with having been indicted, convicted, or punished for crime;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2045669Normal-000001"><span class="s2045669DefaultParagraphFont">(2)    Imputes to him the present existence of an infectious, contagious, or loathsome disease;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2045669Normal-000001"><span class="s2045669DefaultParagraphFont">(3)    Tends directly to injure him in respect to his office, profession, trade, or business, either by imputing to him general disqualification in those respects which the office or other occupation peculiarly requires, or by imputing something with reference to his office, profession, trade, or business that has a natural tendency to lessen its profit;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2045669Normal-000001"><span class="s2045669DefaultParagraphFont">(4)    Imputes to him impotence or want of chastity; or</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2045669Normal-000001"><span class="s2045669DefaultParagraphFont">(5)    By natural consequence, causes actual damage.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2045669Normal"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2045669000002"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2045669Normal"><span class="s2045669SCL">Source:</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2045669SCL-000003"> CivC 1877, § 30; CL 1887, § 2529; RCivC 1903, § 30; RC 1919, § 98; SDC 1939, § 47.0502.</span></p></div></body></html>