20-5-6. Time of offer of performance.Where an obligation fixes a time for its performance, an offer of performance must be made at that time, within reasonable hours, and not before nor afterwards. Where an obligation does not fix a time for its performance, an offer of performance may be made at any time before the debtor, upon a reasonable demand, has refused to perform. Source: CivC 1877, §§839, 840; CL 1887, §§3463, 3464; RCivC 1903, §§1156, 1157; RC 1919, §§763, 764; SDC 1939, §47.0214.
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