<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 53-4-9 - Mistake of fact defined. </title><meta name="Generator" content="PowerTools for Open XML" /><style>span { white-space: pre-wrap; } p.s2072024Normal { 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.s2072024SENU { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2072024CL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2072024Normal-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.s2072024DefaultParagraphFont { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2072024Normal-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.s2072024000002 { font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2072024SCL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2072024SCL-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="s2072024Normal"><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=53-4-9"><span class="s2072024SENU">53-4-9</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2072024SENU">. </span><span class="s2072024CL">Mistake of fact defined.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2072024Normal-000000"><span class="s2072024DefaultParagraphFont">Mistake of fact is a mistake not caused by the neglect of a legal duty on the part of the person making the mistake and consisting in:</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2072024Normal-000001"><span class="s2072024DefaultParagraphFont">(1)    An unconscious ignorance or forgetfulness of a fact, past or present, material to the contract; or</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2072024Normal-000001"><span class="s2072024DefaultParagraphFont">(2)    Belief in the present existence of a thing material to the contract which does not exist, or in the past existence of such a thing which has not existed.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2072024Normal"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2072024000002"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2072024Normal"><span class="s2072024SCL">Source:</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2072024SCL-000003"> CivC 1877, § 888; CL 1887, § 3512; RCivC 1903, § 1206; RC 1919, § 821; SDC 1939, § 10.0312.</span></p></div></body></html>