If any officer authorized to take the acknowledgment or proof of any conveyance of real property or of any other instrument which by law may be recorded, knowingly and falsely certifies that any such conveyance or instrument was acknowledged by any party thereto or was proved by any subscribing witness, when in truth such conveyance or instrument was not acknowledged or proved as certified, he is guilty of forgery.
S.D. Codified Laws § 18-4-25
False certification of acknowledgment or proof as forgery
Source: PenC 1877, § 553; CL 1887, § 6754; RPenC 1903, § 579; RC 1919, § 4184; SDC 1939, § 13.4113.
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