Any instrument affecting the title to or possession of real property may be recorded as by law provided.

Instruments entitled to be recorded must be recorded by the register of deeds of the county in which the real property affected thereby is situated.

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Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 43-28-1

  • Property: includes property, real and personal. See South Dakota Codified Laws 2-14-2
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.

Source: CivC 1877, §§ 647, 651; SL 1879, ch 47, § 1; CL 1887, §§ 3268, 3272; RCivC 1903, §§ 961, 965; SL 1905, ch 149; RC 1919, §§ 569, 573; SL 1921, ch 352; SL 1923, ch 253; SL 1925, ch 265; SDC 1939, § 51.1601.