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South Dakota easement law
South Dakota is scheduled for Wave 3. We have not yet completed and verified South Dakota's state-specific easement research, so we do not publish its figures here. The seven doctrine pillars below explain how each easement type works everywhere.
Common-law-drivenverified June 16
Most easement doctrine is judge-made; the controlling rule for a dispute is the case law, not a statute.
Coming in Wave 3
We stage state research in waves to keep the annual case-law update burden tractable and to avoid publishing anything unverified. South Dakota's prescriptive period, necessity routes, and landmark case-law are not published yet — when we publish them, every figure will carry a primary-source link and a last-verified date, and a licensed attorney will have signed off.
In the meantime, the seven doctrine pillars explain how each easement type works everywhere: