<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 53-4-5 - Actual fraud, acts constituting, question of fact. </title><meta name="Generator" content="PowerTools for Open XML" /><style>span { white-space: pre-wrap; } p.s2072020Normal { 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.s2072020SENU { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2072020CL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2072020Normal-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.s2072020DefaultParagraphFont { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2072020Normal-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; } p.s2072020Normal-000002 { text-indent: 0.25in; 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.s2072020000003 { font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2072020SCL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2072020SCL-000004 { 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="s2072020Normal"><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=53-4-5"><span class="s2072020SENU">53-4-5</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2072020SENU">. </span><span class="s2072020CL">Actual fraud, acts constituting, question of fact.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2072020Normal-000000"><span class="s2072020DefaultParagraphFont">Actual fraud in relation to contracts consists of any of the following acts committed by a party to the contract, or with his connivance, with intent to deceive another party thereto or to induce him to enter into the contract:</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2072020Normal-000001"><span class="s2072020DefaultParagraphFont">(1)    The suggestion as a fact of that which is not true by one who does not believe it to be true;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2072020Normal-000001"><span class="s2072020DefaultParagraphFont">(2)    The positive assertion, in a manner not warranted by the information of the person making it, of that which is not true, though he believe it to be true;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2072020Normal-000001"><span class="s2072020DefaultParagraphFont">(3)    The suppression of that which is true by one having knowledge or belief of the fact;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2072020Normal-000001"><span class="s2072020DefaultParagraphFont">(4)    A promise made without any intention of performing it; or</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2072020Normal-000001"><span class="s2072020DefaultParagraphFont">(5)    Any other act fitted to deceive.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2072020Normal-000002"><span class="s2072020DefaultParagraphFont">Actual fraud is always a question of fact.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2072020Normal"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2072020000003"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2072020Normal"><span class="s2072020SCL">Source:</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2072020SCL-000004"> CivC 1877, §§ 883, 885; CL 1887, §§ 3507, 3509; RCivC 1903, §§ 1201, 1203; RC 1919, §§ 816, 818; SDC 1939, §§ 10.0307, 10.0309.</span></p></div></body></html>