Transfer is an act of the parties, or of the law, by which the title to property is conveyed from one living person to another.
S.D. Codified Laws § 43-4-1
Transfer of property defined
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case First Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n of Rapid City v. Kelly (1981)
Most recently applied in In Re the Estate of Hoffman (October 2002)
Source: CivC 1877, § 599; CL 1887, § 3222; RCivC 1903, § 915; RC 1919, § 517; SDC 1939, § 51.1301.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.