The certificate of acknowledgment by an attorney in fact must be substantially in the following form:

Territory of ____ or State of ____

Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 18-4-14

  • Person: includes natural persons, partnerships, associations, cooperative corporations, limited liability companies, and corporations. See South Dakota Codified Laws 2-14-2

County of ____ ss

On this ____ day of ____, in the year ____, before me personally appeared ____, known to me (or proved to me on the oath of ____) to be the person who is described in and whose name is subscribed to the within instrument as the attorney in fact of ____, and acknowledged to me that he subscribed the name of ____ thereto as principal and his own name as attorney in fact.

Source: CivC 1877, § 666, subdiv 4; CL 1887, § 3288, subdiv 3; RCivC 1903, § 981, subdiv 3; RC 1919, § 587 (3); SDC 1939, § 51.1615 (3).