A transfer vests in the transferee all the actual title to the thing transferred which the transferor then has, unless a different intention is expressed or is necessarily implied.
S.D. Codified Laws § 43-4-17
Title transferred--Intention of parties
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Matter of Estate of Washburn (1998)
Most recently applied in Lovald v. Claussen (In Re Claussen) (March 2007)
Source: CivC 1877, § 619; CL 1887, § 3242; RCivC 1903, § 935; RC 1919, § 537; SDC 1939, § 51.1313.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.