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SDCL § 53-4-5: Actual fraud, acts constituting, question of fact.

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  1. TITLE 53. CONTRACTS
  2. CHAPTER 53-4. DURESS, FRAUD, UNDUE INFLUENCE AND MISTAKE

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:

(1) The suggestion as a fact of that which is not true by one who does not believe it to be true;

(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;

(3) The suppression of that which is true by one having knowledge or belief of the fact;

(4) A promise made without any intention of performing it; or

(5) Any other act fitted to deceive.

Actual fraud is always a question of fact.

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