Chapter 6 - RULES OF PROCEDURE IN CIRCUIT COURTS
- Section 15-6-1 - Scope of Chapter
- Section 15-6-2 - One form of action
- Section 15-6-3 - Commencement of action
- Section 15-6-4(a) - Summons-Form
- Section 15-6-4(b) - Summons served without complaint
- Section 15-6-4(c) - By whom summons served
- Section 15-6-4(d) - Personal service of summons
- Section 15-6-4(e) - Service by leaving copy with resident of defendant's dwelling
- Section 15-6-4(f) - Service upon party not a resident of or found within state
- Section 15-6-4(g) - Proof of service
- Section 15-6-4(h) - Amendment of process
- Section 15-6-4(i) - Service by mail-Admission of service-Costs
- Section 15-6-4(j) - Form of notice and admission of service by mail
- Section 15-6-5(a) - Service-When required
- Section 15-6-5(b) - Service-How made-Proof
- Section 15-6-5(c) - Service on numerous defendants
- Section 15-6-5(d) - Filing of papers-Originals-Copies
- Section 15-6-5(e) - Definition-Filing with the court
- Section 15-6-5(f) - [Repealed]
- Section 15-6-5(g) - Documents not to be filed-Depositions
- Section 15-6-5(h) - Civil Case Filing Statements
- Section 15-6-5(i) - Service of discovery requests by electronic mail or portable storage media device-Costs
- Section 15-6-5(j) - [Repealed]
- Time (§ 15-6-6)
- Pleadings allowed-form of motions (§ 15-6-7)
- General rules of pleading (§ 15-6-8)
- Pleading special matters (§ 15-6-9)
- Form of pleadings (§ 15-6-10)
- Signing of Pleadings (§ 15-6-11)
- Defenses and objections (§ 15-6-12)
- Counterclaim and cross-claim (§ 15-6-13)
- Third-party practice (§ 15-6-14)
- Amended and supplemental pleadings (§ 15-6-15)
- Section 15-6-16 - Pretrial procedure-Formulating issues
- Parties plaintiff and defendant-capacity (§ 15-6-17)
- Joinder of claims and remedies (§ 15-6-18)
- Joinder of persons needed for just adjudication (§ 15-6-19)
- Permissive joinder of parties (§ 15-6-20)
- Section 15-6-21 - Misjoinder and nonjoinder of parties
- Section 15-6-22 - Interpleader
- Class actions (§§ 15-6-23.1 — 15-6-23)
- Intervention (§ 15-6-24)
- Substitution of parties (§§ 15-6-25.1 — 15-6-25)
- Discovery pending action (§ 15-6-26)
- Depositions before action or pending appeal (§ 15-6-27)
- Persons before whom depositions may be taken (§§ 15-6-28.1 — 15-6-28)
- Section 15-6-29 - Stipulations regarding the taking of depositions
- Depositions upon oral examinations (§ 15-6-30)
- -Depositions of witnesses upon written interrogatories (§ 15-6-31)
- Effect of errors and irregularities in depositions (§ 15-6-32)
- Interrogatories to parties (§ 15-6-33)
- Discovery and production of documents and things for inspection, copying, or photographing (§ 15-6-34)
- Physical and mental examinations and blood tests of persons (§ 15-6-35)
- Admission of facts and of genuineness of documents (§ 15-6-36)
- Refusal to make discovery-consequences (§ 15-6-37)
- Jury trial of right (§ 15-6-38)
- Trial by jury or by the court (§ 15-6-39)
- Assignment of cases for trial (§ 15-6-40)
- Dismissal of actions (§ 15-6-41)
- Consolidation-separate trials (§ 15-6-42)
- Evidence (§ 15-6-43)
- Proof of official record (§§ 15-6-44.1 — 15-6-44)
- Subpoena (§ 15-6-45)
- Section 15-6-46 - Exceptions unnecessary
- Jurors (§ 15-6-47)
- Section 15-6-48 - Juries of less than twelve-Majority verdict
- Special verdicts and interrogatories (§ 15-6-49)
- Motion for a directed verdict and for judgment notwithstanding the verdict (§ 15-6-50)
- Instructions to jury-objection (§ 15-6-51)
- Findings by the court (§ 15-6-52)
- Referees (§ 15-6-53)
- Judgments-costs (§ 15-6-54)
- Default (§ 15-6-55)
- Summary judgment (§ 15-6-56)
- Section 15-6-57 - Declaratory judgments
- Section 15-6-58 - Entry of judgment and orders-Effective date
- New trials-Amendment of judgments (§ 15-6-59)
- Relief from judgment or order (§ 15-6-60)
- Section 15-6-61 - Harmless Error
- Stay of proceedings to enforce a judgment (§ 15-6-62)
- Section 15-6-63 - Disability of a judge
- Section 15-6-64 - Seizure of person or property
- Injunctions and restraining orders (§ 15-6-65)
- Section 15-6-66 - Receivers
- Deposit in court (§ 15-6-67)
- Section 15-6-68 - Offer of Judgment
- Section 15-6-69 - Execution
- Section 15-6-70 - Judgment for specific acts-Vesting title
- Section 15-6-71 - Process in behalf of and against persons not parties
- Section 15-6-72 - Expedited civil actions-General provisions
- Section 15-6-72.1 - Local intergovernmental actions-Expedited action-Alternative dispute resolution
- Section 15-6-72.2 - Definition-Local government body
- Section 15-6-73 - Discovery in expedited civil actions
- Section 15-6-74 - Motions
- Section 15-6-75 - Procedure for expedited trials
- Section 15-6-76 - Settlement conference-Alternative dispute resolution
- Section 15-6-76.1 - Claim preclusion-Issue preclusion
- Courts of record and clerks (§ 15-6-77)
- Section 15-6-78, 15-6-79 - Reserved
- Section 15-6-80 - Stenographic report or transcript as evidence
- Applicability (§ 15-6-81)
- Section 15-6-82 - Jurisdiction and venue
- Section 15-6-83 - Rules by courts of record
- Section 15-6-84 - Forms
- Section 15-6-85 - Title
- Section 15-6-86 - Effective date
- Appendix A to SDCL 15-6 - SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS (See Section 15-6-81(a))
- Appendix B to SDCL 15-6 - CIRCUIT COURT RULES (See Section 15-6-83) (§ 15-6)
- Appendix C to SDCL 15-6 - APPENDIX OF FORMS (See Section 15-6-84) (§ 15-6)